Twentieth Century Fox paid more than $1 million to cover the remaining restitution聽of the famed Barefoot Bandit in exchange for the intellectual property rights to his story, on Sunday.聽Colton Harris-Moore became known as the Barefoot Bandit (he committed some of his thefts barefoot)聽after his two-year crime spree from 2008 to 2010聽in Washington鈥檚 San Juan Islands, where he stole cars, airplanes, and a boat聽and regularly broke into vacation homes.聽He聽received a six-and-a-half-year sentence to federal prison in 2012.
The studio鈥檚 most recent and final聽payment of $900,000 to the U.S. Marshals鈥櫬爋ffice will largely cover the cost of the three small airplanes that Harris-Moore stole and crashed, according to the聽Seattle Times.聽Twentieth聽Century Fox already paid聽$135,558 of his restitution聽three years ago.
While Harris-Moore was on the run, he drew comparisons to Frank聽Abagnale, the real-life con man played by Leonardo聽DiCaprio聽in the movie聽Catch Me if You Can, and gained nearly 50,000 Facebook followers.聽There鈥檚 already a and 聽about the Barefoot Bandit, and 20th Century Fox聽plans to turn his story into a movie as well.