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Colton Harris-Moore, the 20-year-old man who was nicknamed the ‘Barefoot Bandit,’ will be sentenced Friday in a Seattle federal court room for the series of crimes that lead to an international manhunt in 2010.

According to CNN, Harris-Moore plead guilty last year to charges of piloting without a license, stealing an airplane, burglarizing a bank and possessing firearms while a fugitive from the law. He also plead giuilty in December to 33 state charges for residential burglaries, identity thefts, a firearm theft, a car theft, attempting to elude a police vehicle and other offenses, according to the court documents.

The Associated Press reports that federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of six-and-a-half-years to be served concurrently with his state sentence, while his attorneys have asked for a separate six-year federal term.

Earlier this week, Colton-Moore made headlines with a string of e-mails he sent from prison in August were released, according to The Los Angeles Times. In the e-mails, he insults the prosecutors and police who captured him and mocked the state sentence he was given. Colton-Moore is currently serving seven-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to the state charges. “Once again, I made it through a situation I shouldn’t have,” he wrote, referring to the judge who gave him the sentence.

Colton-Moore also bragged about his flying skills, writing, “The things I have done as far as flying and airplanes goes, is amazing. Nobody on this planet [could] have done what I have, except for the Wright brothers.”

Still, his lawyers claimed that hie really is sorry for his two-year crime spree.

In another e-mail, Colton-Moore explains why he signed a contract to make a movie that will pay his victims $1.2 million. “Despite the way I feel about it, nobody forced or pressured me to sign the contract. And on top of that, what I want or don’t like doesn’t really matter. I feel a sense of responsibility to people on Camano Island and San Juans . they are the ONLY reason I did this,” he wrote, according to the AP.

Colton-Moore was finally captured in 2010 in the Bahamas, which he reached by stealing a boat. During his cross-country spree, he stole boats, cars and a plane in Indiana that he crash-landed in the Caribbean islands.