October 5, 2019 DENVER (CBS4) – A pattern mail thief was stopped in her tracks last month when she saw a wanted poster with her picture on it. After being repeatedly ripped off by the thief, a Denver landlord tried a new tactic to put a stop to the thefts.
A woman appears to be breaking into mailboxes at a Denver apartment building. (credit: Jai Maitri)
Surveillance video shows the woman entering the vestibule of the apartment building four times in September, usually late at night or in the pre-dawn hours, and breaking into residents mailboxes and stealing mail.
Police say mail thieves are typically looking for information that can help them steal a residents identity and then cause financial havoc.
The woman, with clearly visible tattoos on her upper left arm, would sometimes come by herself, but in other cases, she had another person with her. In one of the videos she can be seen using a key to pry open the mailboxes.
The building owner mounted two cameras to try to deter the thief, but the woman either didn’t notice them or didn’t care as she kept returning.