SEATTLE – Colton Harris-Moore has something legendary bandits Jesse James and D.B. Cooper didn't have: 20,000 Facebook fans and counting. And now he has a four-page article in Maxim magazine based on the story his mother told.

At 6-foot-5, he is a gangly giant with a goofy grin and a getaway plan that puts Huck Finn to shame. Mark Ebner, a writer for Maxim magazine, considers the Island County criminal a legend.