US Postal Service reports 10-15 local break-ins weekly

SAN ANTONIO – Management of a Northwest Side apartment complex hopes someone recognizes a man caught on camera breaking into community mailboxes early Sunday morning.

The man targeted 68 mailboxes at the Honey Hill Apartments at 5011 Glen Ridge Drive, not far from Loop 410 and Evers Road.

Cameras show the man making off with an armful of mail, but not before he tore down what he likely thought was a surveillance camera.

But it turned out to be a fake.

“The purpose was to be a distraction,” said apartment manager Trenton Campbell. “And it was a distraction because the man came up here, reached up, pulled it down and broke it.”

Management thought to install a fake camera because Sunday was far from the first time the apartments have been targeted.

Mailboxes have been broken into at least five times since October 2015. Read more