WESTCHASE, Fla. — A neighborhood is watching out for a man they say has been stealing mail from them for months.

“On January 5, when we all woke up and all of our mailboxes were open which is clearly not normal,” neighbor Brian Simmons said.

Simmons says that was the first time he and his neighbors caught the alleged mail thief on camera.

“He hit about three days later and then in the following weeks he hit a few more times,” Simmons said.

He felt violated knowing someone was scoping out where his family lives and in some cases taking what wasn’t theirs.

“We had several people who had W-2’s taken and one person reported they had their passport taken as well,” Simmons said.

Simmons says police reports were filed and he adjusted his camera to catch him, but seeing whoever did this on his surveillance camera wasn’t going to be enough. Simmons knew he had to catch them in the act and immediately thought of a plan.

“I decided to collect a whole bunch of mail that I don’t care about and also make a bait package which was an Apple Watch box. I knew that would be too hard to resist for a criminal not to take,” Simmons said. Read more