Denver Grand Jury Returns 131-Count Indictment Against Members of Organized Identity Theft Ring

DENVER — Denver District Attorney John Walsh has announced that a Denver grand jury has returned a 131-count indictment against seven members of a wide-ranging identity theft operation.

The indictment alleges that, between September 2024 and December 2025, the defendants committed burglaries and stole mail and financial devices in the Denver metro area in order to commit identify theft.  According to the indictment, the defendants then defrauded people and businesses using various methods, such as creating a fraudulent MyColorado ID app to forge identifications with victim information from the stolen mail and the dark web.  The indictment alleges that the defendants then applied for credit cards and purchased vehicles and other items of value in the victims’ names. According to the indictment, the fraud has resulted in at least $175,000 in losses related to vehicle, hotel room, and retail purchases.

“The allegations alleged in the indictment point to a carefully designed scheme that stole the identities of numerous Denver-area residents and then defrauded people and businesses out of tens of thousands of dollars,” said DA Walsh.  “Identity theft can have lifelong financial effects on victims and ruin their sense of security.  It also results in losses to businesses that are often passed on to consumers.  That’s why the Denver DA’s Office takes identify theft very seriously and will prosecute those accused of the crime to the full extent of the law.  I want to thank the prosecutors and investigators in our office’s Economic Crime Unit, the Denver Police Department’s District 4 Narcotics-Anti Crime Team and Investigations Unit, and Investigators with the United States Postal Inspection Service’s Denver office, whose outstanding work resulted in this indictment.”

For detailed information about the new verification technology of the Colorado Digital ID, please click on the following links:

https://mycolorado.gov/colorado-digital-id/verify

https://oit.colorado.gov/press-release/introducing-the-colorado-digital-idtm-verifier-in-mycolorador

About the Denver DA’s Office:

The mission of the Denver DA’s Office is to protect the community, to seek equal justice for all, and to improve the quality and fairness of criminal justice on behalf of the people of Colorado.   We achieve that mission through excellence in our work investigating and prosecuting crime, supporting victims and their families, working with the community to prevent crime, and providing fair alternatives to incarceration in appropriate cases.

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