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)

“Hopefully that deters her from visiting us again,” said Jai Maitri, who lives in the apartment building in Congress Park.

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. Read more CBS Denver