COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado Springs Police are investigating a reported repeat mailbox peeper and thief who appears to be targeting one home on the north side.
Victoria Wickman, a homeowner in the Vista Grande neighborhood, noticed multiple pieces of mail missing and didn’t think anything of it, until she caught a man on a home security camera checking her mailbox in the middle of the night in late November.
To see if her suspicions about this thief were true, she planted an empty jewelry box in her mailbox only to find it gone when she checked back. Since then, she’s retrieved her mail from the street as soon as it’s delivered and opted for e-payments to protect her information.
“Now you’re invading our privacy, now you’re invading our property, and you’re invading our identity. And I don’t like that,” Wickman said.
She first reported it to the Colorado Springs Police in December by filing two more reports and reaching out to the United States Postal Service for help. However, she has yet to hear that either agency has located the suspect or made substantial progress on their investigation.