Names, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers: information Daron Breinholt did not go looking for, but found Thursday morning.
He took out the trash from the shoe distribution center, where he works, in the warehouse section on Salt Lake's west side.
"I was just throwing away some stuff (in a dumpster) , and it was chock full of medical records," said Breinholt. "There's everything in there from canceled checks to routing numbers. They could steal a lot identities. A lot of identities were in there."
At least some of the records appeared to come from Mountain Medical Center, a chiropractic office that had been in the Murray area until some months ago. Dr. Randall Malin said through his lawyer that he did not throw away records. "It's news to him," said Attorney Robert Harrison.
Salt Lake Police packed away perhaps twenty boxes of papers, and said they would protect the documents, as they dug into the matter.
Surveillance video, which 2News has not been able to see, reportedly showed two people who drove up in a red pickup truck Wednesday afternoon, and unloaded the materials from a trailer.
The Utah Attorney General's Office said carelessly discarding medical records is a violation of state law, but the penalty is a fine, not jail time. Still, the records of each patient, according to an AG official, could lead to a levy of $2500. He said no one has been fined since the law went into effect in the last several years.