The Denver man convicted of stealing two cars and a motorcycle last July, and leading authorities on a five-hour chase through the Roaring Fork Valley, was sentenced on Monday to six years in a correctional facility that offers intensive drug rehabilitation.

Philip Vigil, 28, originally faced 17 counts and potentially decades in prison for the crimes. In April he pleaded guilty to five counts, four of them felonies: motor vehicle theft, vehicular eluding, driving with a revoked license, possession of a weapon by a previous offender and, the lone misdemeanor, reckless endangerment.

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