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Freedom made for less than a perfect hollywood ending there, good morning. >> reporter: and the word is, books and movies are already in the works, about the barefoot bandit and the last 30 minutes of his life as a fugitive, life as a free young man, apparently filled with panic, a security guard working at the marina in harbor island, on an island just east of eleuthera, east of nasa in the bahamas, spotted this white guy, 6'5", hanging around with a backpack and holding a pistol and gave a bit of a foot pursuit and the security guard said colton harris-moore, also known that's barefoot bandi...

Was taken into custody on eleuthera island, and he'll be flown to nassau, where the royal bahamas police force will be holding a press conference about an hour from now, and we'll bring you sound from that as soon as we have it. now, police say they were able to hone in on his exact location after recovering the 44 foot power boat they allege he stole from a marina on grand abaco island, 40 miles away. jamie. >> jamie: we spoke exclusively with a police spokesperson in the last hour and were told that it was confirmed that he had actually made his way down to the island in an airplane. do we h...

Today when they ultimately arrested colton harris-moore. he is the so-called barefoot bandit, according to authorities. he has been on the lam here in the islands for exactly a week but eluded police for about the last two years since as you noted he escaped that halfway house. here's how it went down this morning. the arrest happening at roughly 3:00 in the morning. apparently it happened off the island of eleuthera, where this man, colton harris-moore approached some of the residents there asking them for any help, assistance, to try to fly off or get off the island by boat to try to disappe...

Washington state who authorities believe has stolen five airplanes flew a $650,000 aircraft from bloomington, indiana grand abaco island in the bahamas. he crash landed in a marsh in these photos provided to fox news. authorities were hot on his tail in grand abaco which is where he stopped for a beer. >> he looks like an average guy just came in to get a drink. don't look like no one terrifying. >> reporter: authorities last track of him when he stole a power boat in marsh harbor and set sail for eleuthera, 40 miles south. he has no formal pilot training. nonetheless, they remain on the looko...

Airplanes, recently flew a $650,000 aircraft that wasn't his, from indiana to abaco island in the bahamas. you can see he crash landed in a marsh in these photos provided to fox news. authorities were hot on his tail in grand abaco but last track of the barefoot bandit when he stole a 44 foot power boat and set sail, they believe for eleuthera, 40 miles south, but not before stealing supplies from the curly tails restaurant. >> we really don't condone it. we don't think it is glamorous. some people are glamorizing the whole barefoot bandit thing. he's committing crimes and breaking into busine...