GOLDEN, COLO. (AP) -- A 19-year-old man who was the first to be convicted under the state's human trafficking laws has been sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Attorney General John Suthers announced the sentence Tuesday in the case of Dallas Colby Cardenas.
A jury in June convicted Cardenas of trafficking of a child, pimping, pimping a child and other charges related to pimping between May 2010 and June 2010.
The indictment says Cardenas trafficked a 17-year-old girl, pimped another, and forced both to participate in prostitution in Denver and Lakewood areas. He posted ads on Craigslist.
Suthers says the conviction and sentence is the first under the state's human trafficking laws passed by the Legislature in 2006.
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