'Barefoot Bandit' Calls Island County Sheriff Mark Brown 'King Swine'
We all remember the lengthy and poignant letter Colton Harris-Moore (aka "Barefoot Bandit") submitted to a judge before he was sentenced last month to seven years in prison. Harris-Moore doesn't seem as sorry any longer for his two-year crime spree, most of it on his hometown of Camano Island. New federal court documents, according to news reports, say he's been writing e-mails in which he ridicules police and prosecutors.
In one of the e-mails, the 20-year-old Harris-Moore refers to Island County Sheriff Mark Brown as "king swine." Prosecutors who handled his case are dismissed as "fools" and news reporters as "vermin." At least he got one of them right.
In the e-mails, too, Harris-Moore brags about flying an airplane, calling his accomplishment "amazing," and unmatched by anyone, save the Wright Brothers.
Emma Scanlan, one of the Bandit's lawyers, though, said the inflammatory excerpts were cherry-picked from more than 700 pages of e-mails and phone transcripts and that none of the statements reflect that he doesn't feel sorry for the people he victimized.
"Maybe he doesn't like the sheriff's office, maybe he doesn't like the prosecutors," Scanlan said. "But he's recognizing the most important group of people."
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