A US man dubbed the 'Barefoot Bandit' has been sentenced to six and a half years in jail for a string of audacious crimes across the country.
Colton Harris-Moore, whose crime-spree ended with his arrest in the Bahamas, was also given three years' probation by a federal judge in Seattle.
It follows a state court ruling which gave the 20-year-old a jail term of more than seven years in December. He will serve the sentences concurrently.
Emily Langlie, of the US Attorney's Office in Seattle, said the new sentence was for 78 months in jail and three years of supervised release.
Harris-Moore - whose nickname stems from the discovery of bare footprints at his crime scenes - admitted charges including bank robbery, stealing an aircraft, flying a plane without a license and stealing a boat as a teenager.
A 2009 criminal complaint alleged that Harris-Moore stole a \$340,000 (£216,244) Cessna plane from Idaho and flew it to Washington after committing a string of burglaries and vehicle thefts in the United States and Canada.
The complaint also said he was accused of residential and commercial burglaries, vehicle theft and assaults on law enforcement officers.
Harris-Moore was arrested in July 2010 in the Bahamas, after a dramatic high-speed boat chase on Harbour Island, one week after police found the wreckage of a stolen plane they believe he flew to the archipelago.
His youth and the bold nature of his crimes have turned him into a folk hero for some, who have romanticised him as a latter-day Billy the Kid.
But under the terms of an agreement which saw him plead guilty to a string of charges, he will bot be allowed to profit from selling the story of his crimes.
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