Two Central Texas women digging through trash behind a hotel have been arrested after police said they were gathering information for identity thieves.

The women remained in jail Wednesday after being arrested by the Round Rock Police Department outside of an Extended Stay hotel last week. She initially told police they were rummaging for scrap metal, but officers said they found folders containing the names and credit card numbers of more than 50 people who stayed at the hotel.

One of the women told officers such information is commonly traded for drugs and that she has exchanged hundreds of similar folders with different people. She was arrested on charges of possession of identifying information and drug possession.

The other woman was arrested on a drug possession charge.