 It’s pretty brazen, walking into a wedding venue and walking out with the bride’s wallet as she takes her vows. 
 
 Photo from surveillance video that reportedly shows Denise Burns, AKA Denise Gunderson She is 50, address is unknown. San Diego Sheriff's deputies say she is a suspect in several thefts from wedding venues. Courtesy photo + Read Caption Share Photo  
 
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 It happened in Fallbrook this summer, then in Coronado a few months later. Other weddings were hit in Santee and Temecula. 
 
 Sheriff’s detectives in two counties say the crimes are linked to the same suspect: Denise Louise Burns, also known as Denise Gunderson. The 50-year-old is a career criminal who authorities say dresses up like a wedding guest and slips into crowded venues, where she rifles through purses and sneaks out with credit cards, cash and checks belonging to members of the bridal party. The thefts seem to happen during the ceremony, when the purses are left unattended. 
 
 A $100,000 arrest warrant was issued for Burns last week in San Diego County, where she is charged with grand theft, identity theft and burglary in the series of crimes. Detectives in Riverside are also seeking an arrest warrant for Burns for a theft at a Temecula wedding in September and a similar one in the same city a year earlier. 
 
 “What’s unique about this is it’s taking place at weddings, in which the last thing on (a bride’s) mind is someone coming in and victimizing them on one of their most important days,” Riverside County Sheriff’s Detective R. Holder said Monday. “It’s very brazen.” 
 
 In June, bride Michelle Tietz was saying her “I do’s” at a Fallbrook resort when someone swiped her wallet. Within a half hour, her credit cards were used to buy gas down the road. Not long after that, surveillance cameras caught a woman — believed to be Burns — using the cards at an Escondido Target. The woman was holding Tietz wallet. 
 
 The case landed on the desk of San Diego County Sheriff’s Detective Lisa Jenkins, who said Monday that the ensuing investigation linked Burns to burglaries at other venues. 
 
 In the Santee theft in July, Jenkins said, an employee spotted a woman she later identified as Burns wandering around the venue. In the Coronado case in September, the bride and bridesmaids lost not just cards and checks, but a large amount of cash that was to be used toward the cost of the wedding. 
 
 Court records indicate Burns—who has a number of aliases—has a lengthy criminal record, dating back to at least 1998 and including convictions for drug possession, false impersonation, burglary and receiving stolen property. A former Corona resident, she has convictions for crimes in Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. Her whereabouts now are unknown, authorities said. 
 
 In 2006, Burns pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and was sentenced to more than three years in prison, San Diego County court records show. 
 
 In 2009, she was accused of stealing an elementary school teacher’s purse at a Wildomar school, then using the cards at a Temecula casino. In 2012, she pleaded guilty to charges linked to a stolen purse at a Temecula elementary school; the cards were used to rent a pickup, then were used at a North County casino. 
 
 Holder said he tied Burns to thefts during a wedding at a Temecula area winery in September. 
 
 ”During the wedding, she goes through wallets, beats feet out of there and right away starts using the cards,” Holder said, adding that credit card thieves know they have just a short window to use the cards before the victim notices the theft. 
 
 He is also working to identify a second woman, who he said used one of the stolen identities to open an account at Costco. In that instance, he has good idea of what the second suspect looks like: she posed for a picture for her new Costco card. 

 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Southern California authorities are looking for a wedding thief who steals wallets, credit cards and other valuables on the couple's happiest day without so much as an "I do." 
 
 The San Diego County Sheriff's Department says an arrest warrant has been issued for 50-year-old Denise Louise Burns — also known as Denise Gunderson. 
 
 Investigators say Burns pretends to be a wedding guest, makes her way to the bridal suite and helps herself to wallets, cash and credit cards during the ceremony. 
 
 Detective Lisa Jenkins says Burns immediately heads to the store to use the stolen cards. 
 
 Jenkins says Burns has pulled off heists during a half-dozen weddings in San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. 
 
 The detective says when it comes to brazen crimes, Burns "takes the cake."
– Southern California authorities have issued a $100,000 arrest warrant for a 50-year-old wedding "guest" who has slipped into bridal suites at about a half-dozen ceremonies and lifted cash, credit cards, and checks while the real guests were celebrating with the bride and groom, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Cops say after she does her dirty work at the wedding venue, suspect Denise Louise Burns, aka Denise Gunderson, then heads out immediately to do some shopping with the bridal party's stolen currency, the AP notes. The San Diego County arrest warrant for Burns—said by the Union-Tribune to be a "career criminal" with a long rap sheet of convictions for drug possession, burglary, and false impersonation, among others—charges her with grand theft, identity theft, and burglary. "What's unique about this is it's taking place at weddings, in which the last thing on [a bride's] mind is someone coming in and victimizing them on one of their most important days," a Riverside County Sheriff's detective tells the Union-Tribune. "It's very brazen." (A Missouri groom went after a guy suspected of stealing cards from his wedding.)