COLORADO SPRINGS — A man and woman convicted of looting a house after its owners had fled the Waldo Canyon fire were sentenced Wednesday to lengthy prison terms.

Shane Erik Garrett, 36, received 48 years in prison. He had faced a sentence in the triple digits for the June 26 burglary, in which roughly $3,000 worth of property was stolen from the Mountain Shadows neighborhood home of Chris and Carol White.

His co-defendant, Belinda Wells-Yates, 39, was sentenced Wednesday afternoon to 72 years.

A jury convicted the pair of a variety of crimes at a February trial, including burglary, identity theft and methamphetamine possession. Wells-Yates is believed to have entered the home through a doggy door under a scheme the pair had planned to repeat as flames threatened to wipe out entire neighborhoods in Colorado Springs — with Wells-Yates telling an undercover officer they were “chasing the fire.”

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