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, 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.

Once that sentence is completed, Douglas County District Attorney George Brauchler said, Chartier will be extradited to Colorado to face charges here. Brauchler’s office has charged her with 15 counts, ranging from theft and identity theft to sexual exploitation of a child and racketeering. The most serious charge is a Class 2 felony, which carries a maximum sentence of 24 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

According to the Douglas County charging documents, Chartier impersonated and duped several people online, often taking the photos they sent to her to set up new fake profiles or carry out other ruses.

In 2011, she set up a fake Facebook profile for Andersen, through which a 17-year-old California girl — who was claiming to be 18 years old — tried to contact the real Andersen. Chartier then, posing as the girl, sent the message to the real Andersen and orchestrated an online relationship between the two, relaying chats and explicit photos. She went so far as to arrange a real-life liaison between the two in Colorado.

Chartier, according to the documents, tried to extort money from Andersen while posing as the California girl’s mother. And, posing as Andersen, she made threats to the girl. The threats led to a police raid at Andersen’s home, but it took another year before authorities were able to unravel the whole plot and realize Andersen was a victim.

By then, the cloud that the raid created over Andersen had helped to end his career as a fan favorite with the Denver Nuggets. After being out of basketball for several months, he signed a 10-day contract with the Miami Heat, which he capitalized on to become a key cog in the team’s 2013 NBA championship.

According to a sentencing report obtained by the Winnipeg Free Press, Chartier lived in filth and rarely left her home. The high-speed Internet connection that arrived in Easterville in 2011 was her only connection to the outside world. And, now, according to the report, she has little remorse for her cons. She cites Andersen’s successful rebound as a reason why.

“It was a good thing, doesn’t it seem like it?” she told a probation officer.

Chartier said being caught was a “wake-up call,” according to the report, and she now spends her days studying the Bible. And there’s another thing that has given her a new attitude about the future, according to the Winnipeg Free Press. A year ago, she got married — to a man she met online.

John Ingold: 303-954-1068, jingold@denverpost.com or @johningold