The documents had been outside the store for several days and were supposed to have been removed by Sinclair Disposal Service last week, according to the manager.

Chief Malone informed The Union-Recorder around 5 p.m. Thursday evening that the documents obtained from the Friedman’s site by the Milledgeville Police Department had been turned over to Friedman’s employees.

“You really don’t want to have any of that information like that out there these days, especially with the availability of the Internet,” Baldwin County Detective Chris Spires said.

A visit to Friedman’s Web site at www.friedmans.com under the ‘Contact Us’ link states “We are dedicated to keeping your personal account information secure and confidential. In order to protect against unauthorized access to your account, we therefore will not provide credit account information or answer any question regarding your credit account through e-mail.”

Attempts to contact the Friedman’s home office in Addision, Texas, were unsuccessful Thursday.