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Manhunt Suspended For Notorious Teen Suspected Of Firing On Deputies

A gunshot fired at a deputies responding to a burglary near Granite Falls Sunday night triggered a huge manhunt for the culprit who could be teenage fugitive Colton Harris-Moore.

Officials from the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, the Everett police SWAT team and even a Blackhawk helicopter from U.S. Customs and Border Protection searched for the burglary suspect until early Monday night.

The search began Sunday night after a break-in was reported at a home near Granite Falls.

Deputies who arrived to investigate the break-in found the stolen items -- blankets, shoes and possibly food, but nothing of high value -- behind the home and called for backup after a shot was fired nearby.

SWAT officers set up a perimeter and tracking teams began their search for the burglary suspect along Menzel Lake Road, southeast of Granite Falls. While searching for the burglar, police found a .22 caliber magazine that may belong to the shooter.

By 4:30 p.m. Monday, officials said they’ve stopped searching for the burglar and will have additional patrols in the area.

Hover said residents are encouraged to keep the doors to their homes, outbuildings and vehicles locked at all times.

Deputies suspect the shooter they were searching for is 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore. He was first convicted at age 12 and is suspected in nearly 50 cases since he snuck out the window of a halfway house in April 2008.

Just last Thursday, Harris-Moore is suspected of stealing a single-engine Cessna from Idaho that had a crash-landing in a clearcut near the same area as Sunday's burglary. UNCUT: Chopper 7 Video Of Crashed Plane

He is also believed to have taken and hard-landed two airplanes from the San Juan Islands in the past year before stealing a boat and making his way to Point Roberts.

TIMELINE: Colton Harris-Moore's Crime Spree

"Obviously we're aware of what everyone's talking about, but deputies didn't see him, and so until we make an arrest and know who it is, we can't say," said Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover.

KIRO 7 News reporter Rick Price talked with the man whose home was burglarized Sunday.

"What led me to believe that (the burglar) was somebody in the woods is that we have a lot of valuables -- computers, jewelry -- and nothing was touched. (The burglar took) only things that were needed to survive in the woods. Nothing else was touched," said Bob Gleyre.

Harris-Moore is also a suspect in several burglaries at the Creston, British Columbia, airport just north of Idaho where the Cessna took off, said British Columbia. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Staff Sgt. Gordon Stewart.

WATCH IT: Teen's International Crime Spree

Pat Gardiner, who owns the Cessna, told The Associated Press on Monday that his hangar and a few others were broken into over the Sept. 26-27 weekend; all that was taken was a Leatherman utility tool.

Gardiner bought a new lock, and his hangar was promptly broken into again late on Sept. 28 or early on Sept. 29. This time, his plane was taken. A logger found it last Thursday, 260 miles to the west on a path toward Harris-Moore's Camano Island hometown.

According to an insurance adjuster who reviewed the damage from the crash-landing, whoever stole the plane started it with a screwdriver, Gardiner said. The plane, which appeared to have run out of gas, was totaled.

Perhaps telling is that there were bare footprints inside and outside the hangars that had been broken into at Bonners Ferry; Harris-Moore earned himself the nickname of "the barefoot burglar" by committing some of his other crimes barefoot. In one hangar, Gardiner said, the footprints were on the wall -- the suspect had put his feet up, apparently while eating.

Harris-Moore's mother, Pam Kohler, said she has periodically spoken with her son by phone, but hadn't heard from him this weekend or on Monday.

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