HOUSTON -- Houston police are investigating whether hundreds of local car buyers may have had their identities stolen, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.

Officers found personal financial information of unsuspecting customers during a drug raid last week.

Police said they discovered 7,000 to 8,000 sales contracts when they raided Ray Whitmer's house in southwest Houston. Whitmer and another man, Manuel Souza, were arrested.

Neither suspect said how they obtained the files. But police are afraid they may have been used for identity theft.

"An individual can take every one of these files and obtain credit under the victim's name," said Lt. Robert Manzo with the HPD Financial Crimes Squad.

The files are sales contracts from the Lawrence Marshall Houston dealership that closed in February.

A spokeswoman at Lawrence Marshall’s headquarters in Hempstead said they do not know how those files left the building. She said they are routinely saved and destroyed.

"We do know as a fact these two individuals have never been employed as car salesmen in any dealership in Houston," Manzo said.

Pat Platt called the whole thing crazy. Her financial information was among the hundreds found during the raid.

"They know everything about me -- where I live, everything. Where I work, that's on there, too. Social security number -- that's on there, too. My driver's license," Platt said.

Police are asking that anyone who bought a vehicle from Lawrence Marshall Houston in 2006 get a credit report and check for unauthorized activity.