'BAREFOOT BANDIT' DEPORTED TO U.S. AFTER BAHAMAS PLEA Felicity Ingraham reported from Nassau, and William Yardley from Seattle. NASSAU, the Bahamas -- Colton Harris-Moore, the teenage fugitive known as the 'Barefoot Bandit,' was deported to the United States on Tuesday evening, hours after pleading guilty to a single count of illegally landing an airplane in this island nation, a State Department official said. More than two years after he escaped from a halfway house in the Seattle suburbs and became a suspect in scores of burglaries and boat, plane and credit card thefts across the United States, Harris-Moore, 19, was captured in a boat chase here early Sunday after U.S. authorities alerted local officials that he was wanted on a federal warrant and was believed to be in the Bahamas. Police in the Bahamas had threatened to charge him with several crimes, including illegal possession of a firearm, but Tuesday he was ordered only to pay a $300 fine for the single charge of illegally landing. A lawyer for Harris-Moore, Monique Gomez, said in an interview that police here still could pursue other charges after he returned to the United States. Harris-Moore faces many serious charges at home, including one federal charge of stealing an airplane in Idaho and transporting it across state lines, as well as state charges in dozens of other burglaries and thefts in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle, said Harris-Moore likely would first have a hearing in the United States in South Florida, the closest jurisdiction to the Bahamas, and then would be transported to Washington. 'It can take a few days, it can take a few weeks,' she said. In court here Tuesday, Harris-Moore wore a clean pair of white sneakers, a 'Bahamas' T-shirt and several fresh mosquito bites. He was met with amused approval by the crowd at the courthouse. Some spectators said he was 'a smart young man' and urged him to hold his head up high rather than ducking it to avoid facing news cameras. A courtroom orderly said in an interview that he had asked Harris-Moore how he taught himself to pilot the planes and boats that he reportedly stole during an escapade that took him from the Pacific Northwest to the Bahamas. Harris-Moore said he had known how since kindergarten, said the orderly, who was speaking without authorization. Gomez told reporters that Harris-Moore had told her that he 'didn't want all the media hype' and 'just wanted to go home.' 