7+ years after we left CO. We had lived and had the car registered in 2 different states since then (MD, CT). We were living in Connecticut at the time and had 3 different addresses in the 5 years living in MD. We hadn't even traveled through CO in a vehicle since we had moved to the East Coast, much less with that vehicle.

It amazed me that:

1. They still had plates in their system that had been destroyed years previously and hadn't been re-registered in CO in 7+ years
2. They somehow hunted down our current address after that many moves
3. The photo clearly showed a car that wasn't our car with a license plate that wasn't our license plate

Apparently a human never checks this stuff, but it feels like a human must have done some legwork to find our current address.

Ultimately, I call in, waited on hold for 15 minutes, told the person that the car make/model didn't match the citation and the license number didn't match the citation, and they promptly dropped the charges. The question is how many people has CO scammed out of their hard earned money and they just paid because they didn't pay attention?