Accused 'Barefoot Bandit' Captured By Former Ohioan

The "Barefoot Bandit" is expected to appear in court this week after he was busted in the Bahamas.

Colton Harris-Moore is accused of stealing cars, boats, planes and credit cards from his victims over the course of two-years. He escaped from a halfway house in Washington in 2008 and was captured on Sunday morning outside a resort managed by a former Northeast Ohioan.

"We were on, I guess, a level of heightened sensitivity knowing the young man, Colton, the Barefoot Bandit here in the Bahamas to begin with," said Anne Ward from the Romora Bay Resort and Marina. Ward said the suspect was spotted by the resort's security director. "He saw the unauthorized skiff coming in and the young man immediately jumped-up on the dock, he had his gun, he had a nine-millimeter with him in his knapsack."

For nearly two-years, authorities blamed the teenager for a series of burglaries across several states including Idaho, North Dakota and Indiana. He was dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" by police who said he often left behind chalk drawings of footprints.

According to Ward, he was cornered on a dock outside of the resort on Sunday. "When he was on the dock, the suspect kept yelling, 'they're going to kill me'," said Ward who once ran a hotel on Lake Erie before moving to the Bahamas.

"The Bahamian police officers actually shot the engines on the boat he was on, with their guns, so that he couldn't go anywhere, even though he was grounded-out," said Ward. "At that point they approached him and were able to capture him."

In Washington, his former neighbors wondered if he'd be found and since he never hurt anyone, his Facebook fans hoped he wouldn't be captured. "It's like, incredible that he spent all that time sneaking around and nobody could catch him," said one person.

His attorney now hopes all the cases against his client will be condensed and move forward in Washington. "We had hoped the Bahamian authorities would think about just allowing him to be extradited to the United States and everything's consolidated in Seattle in Federal Court," said John Henry Browne. "He's charged in Federal Court in Seattle and I think it would make a lot of sense to try to get all the cases consolidated in one place. But given the sensational nature of the case maybe everybody wants their crack at him. Which I think administratively and the expense to the taxpayers would be kind of a waste."

His mother, Pamela Kohler, issued a statement expressing relief that the manhunt for her son had ended.