A Boulder man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday.
Kristopher Chavez, 36, also was sentenced to two years of work release and 20 years of probation following his prison sentence, according to Boulder County District Attorney spokeswoman Shannon Carbone.
Chavez was convicted in 2018 by a Boulder County jury of one count of violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, one count of theft of an at-risk elder, and 19 counts of felony theft.
According to the initial grand jury indictment released in December 2016, Chavez and Timothy Hatcher operated a time-share fraud scheme from 2014 through September 2016.
Investigators said Hatcher would contact time-share owners across the U.S. — most of them elderly — and invite them to a seminar at a local hotel, where he would pitch a proposal wherein the owners would pay a onetime fee to transfer ownership of their time-share.
Once the payment was made, the owners would be referred to Chavez — operating under the alias Chris Culhane — to transfer the title out of their name as well as sign paperwork appointing a third party as the “attorney-in-fact” for the transfer.
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