A San Luis Valley man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for extortion and threatening judges in multiple counties on Wednesday, according to a news release from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Brett Andrew Nelson was arrested in Gunnison on Feb. 15, 2023, for various felony counts of criminal extortion, retaliation against a judge and attempt to influence a public servant as well as stalking, forgery and other charges. In a statewide grand jury in April 2022, Nelson was found guilty of 20 out of 24 charges for committing extortion and threatening several judges, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, attorneys and citizens in Gunnison, Montrose, and Alamosa Counties over a two-year period. According to the 24-count indictment, Nelson filed multiple fraudulent documents against a variety of public officials and victims associated with criminal and domestic cases in which he was a defendant and claimed they owed him millions of dollars in monetary damages.