MISSOURI CITY, Texas -- Dozens of personal documents including financial information were found blowing through a Missouri City neighborhood, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Residents of the Bradford Village subdivision said they were shocked to find the documents, including copies of checks.

They said they believe that documents were taken out of a D.R. Horton model home office and put in plastic bags at a home under construction to be thrown away. Instead, they ended up blowing down the street.

"I just couldn't believe it. Why would D.R. Horton treat our confidential information like this -- just laid out in the community in the open?" resident Audrey Moody said.

"(It had) social security number, cell phone, employment, cancelled checks, money orders, birth certificates, power of attorney information -- a lot of things that should have been shredded," resident Shirley Soloman said.

The Federal Trade Commission said public exposure to this type of information could lead to the nation's fastest growing crime -- identity theft.

The personal documents were given to the homeowner's association president so that he can contact everyone.

D.R. Horton did not comment.