CAMERON -Stealing mail is a felony but that didn’t stop the burglars who broke into several post offices in Central Texas this weekend. But it’s not just your money they’re after; they may also want your identity.

Mail boxes at five more local post offices were burglarized over the weekend. Investigators think they could be connected to the string of drop box burglaries throughout our area over the past few months.

Your mail is full of sensitive information like bills and bank statements making the post office a target for box drop bandits.

“Through the post office there are so many different avenues in which people can utilize and do identity theft. I think identity theft is the bottom line for many of these,” says Chief Dixon.

Identity theft could be behind recent post office break-ins