SEATTLE — It’s Kenny the security guard calling again from the Bahamas, wondering if there is any news on that $10,000 FBI reward for catching Colton Harris-Moore, not to mention several thousand more in private reward money.

The FBI still is pondering it, Kenny, and “coordinating with the Royal Bahamas Police Force.”

With each phone call, Kenny Strachan sounds more and more dejected.

Wasn’t he the one who spotted the Barefoot Bandit about midnight July 11, running on the dock toward the Romora Bay Resort and Marina in Harbour Island?

Wasn’t he the one who ran alongside the 19-year-old, who was holding a 9 mm handgun, trying to persuade him to surrender?

Wasn’t he the one who, after Harris-Moore ran off into the bushes, called the cops on his cell phone?

That, he says, surely was information leading to the arrest of Harris-Moore.

Strachan tried his best to point out the facts as he saw them, giving by his count some 20 interviews to the media that descended on the island.

But there are problems.

It turns out that a number of other people also have applied for the reward money.

And figuring out who gets the money could prove nearly as difficult as catching the elusive Harris-Moore, who now sits in a SeaTac jail.

Besides Strachan, among those known to have applied for the reward is Jared Johnson, who captains a water taxi — one of many boats that for $5 ferries passengers between Eleuthera Island and Harbour Island.

A taxicab driver, Frederick “Fine Threads” Neely, says he made the claim on behalf of Johnson.

Neely says that Johnson saw Harris-Moore in a skiff near the water taxi stand on Eleuthera.

As happens with some frequency, the phone system was down on the island, says Neely, and so Johnson drove to the police station and made the report.

That was the first eyewitness report that Harris-Moore had managed to make his way from Abaco — the island where he had crash-landed a stolen Cessna — to Eleuthera, some 40 miles south.

“Until then, nobody knew he was here,” says Neely, making the case for Johnson.

Ronald Billiot, captain of the 92-foot-yacht Picasso; Jordan Sackett, son of the yacht’s owner, Richard Sackett; and Pat Young, captain of another yacht are also attempting to claim the award.

The Picasso was docked at the Romora Bay when Harris-Moore was spotted on the dock. In fact, security cameras on the yacht caught the Barefoot Bandit on video.

When Harris-Moore stole a powerboat on the dock and took off, leaving the Bahamian cops standing there, they looked for somebody with a boat to give chase.

Richard Sackett, of New Orleans, agreed to let them use a 27-foot Boston Whaler he also had at the dock.

“Who was there? Who made it able for the officers to catch him? We put ourselves in danger. We knew he had a gun,” says Jordan Sackett.

At the very least, says Richard Sackett, “it’d have been nice” if the FBI had written the three young men “a nice thank you letter … what a great example of American citizenship and youth.”