A 33-year-old man who shared top billing in an ID theft ring that preyed on victims in Jefferson County and throughout metro Denver has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Sean Wyles headed the ring with who was sentenced to 22 years in prison in January, officials said Monday.
Members of the ring , fake driver’s licenses and state identification cards, according to a news release from the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
The ring used the checks to obtain cash, merchandise, personal property, services, gift cards, food and other items.
Wyles is among eight of the nine people indicted in the ring who have so far pleaded guilty. Six members of the gang have been sentenced and two others await sentencing, said Pam Russell, a district attorney’s spokeswoman.
One member of the ring, Juan Castaneda, 35, has so far not entered a plea.
Vigil pleaded guilty in December to violating Colorado’s organized crime control act and two counts of identity theft.
She was already on probation for a prior felony conviction for identity theft when she committed the most recent crimes, the release said.
Wyles, who also pleaded guilty to violating the state’s organized crime control act and identity theft, had escaped from a court-ordered stay at a mens’ residential drug treatment facility.
He was still at large when he was indicted with the rest of the ring.
