Thread: Woman who catfished Chris "Birdman" Andersen online sentenced to jail

A reclusive woman who snared professional basketball player Chris Andersen in a bizarre online extortion plot has been sentenced to jail in Canada, bringing her one step closer to being brought to Colorado to face charges here.

Shelly Chartier, a 31-year-old agoraphobe from the small village of Easterville, Manitoba, both impersonated the NBA star online and tried to blackmail him for thousands of dollars, according to authorities in both Colorado and Canada. Andersen's was one of numerous identities Chartier assumed online, according to charging documents in Douglas County District Court and court testimony in Canada. The intricate fraud led to police raiding Andersen's Larkspur home in 2012, believing wrongly that he may have threatened a young woman in California.

This summer, Chartier pleaded guilty in Canada to seven counts of fraud and other crimes, according to reports in the Canadian media. Earlier this month, she was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

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