TRAVERSE CITY (July 19, 2011)--Two men say the contents of an
abandoned self-storage unit they bought in northern Michigan included claims filed with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Texas following 2005's Hurricane Rita, a laptop registered to FEMA and car loan applications.

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported that Lawrence Betz and William Petersen bought the contents of the unit for $500 in October.

It had been rented in 2009 to a Traverse City man who worked for a
FEMA subcontractor in 2005 and now works for a car dealership.

FEMA says it takes very seriously any potential breaches of private information, and says it's investigating how the documents ended up at West Bay Self Storage in Leelanau County's Elmwood Township.

Sheriff's officials in Grand Traverse and Leelanau Counties determined no crime was committed.