SEATAC — The Barefoot Bandit is on crutches.
Colton Harris-Moore, 20, badly sprained his leg during a jail volleyball game, said his attorney, John Henry Browne.
The infamous Camano Island man was “in some pain, not much,” Browne said Thursday. “He did make the spike though.”
Browne mistakenly told reporters Thursday morning that Harris-Moore’s leg was broken. The Seattle lawyer later learned that his high-profile client wasn’t as badly injured as initially thought.
It was unclear if Harris-Moore’s leg was in a cast, Browne said.
“He is on crutches,” Browne said in an email. “Guess he is just indestructible!!!!”
Harris-Moore, who is charged with nearly 40 crimes, is being held in the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac.
He’s awaiting trial on six federal charges and more than 30 state felonies.
A federal grand jury last week handed down an additional charge relating to a 2009 bank burglary on Orcas Island. The indictment also invokes federal law that would prevent Harris-Moore from profiting by selling the story of his years on the lam.
The Camano Island man gained international notoriety for a two-year crime spree across nine states and in three countries. He earned the Barefoot Bandit nickname because he sometimes went without shoes.
He was arrested July 11 in the Bahamas.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have said that the criminal case is expected to end with a plea agreement.
Harris-Moore is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle on the newest indictment.
Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3447; jholtz@heraldnet.com.
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