Thousands of dollars have been stolen from personal bank accounts of residents in a Verona neighborhood.

The Augusta County Sheriff's Office says a group of five men targeted the Rolla Mills subdivision, stealing check books and credit card information from mailboxes.

Now, two of the men police say are responsible, Brian Carroll and Linwood Johnson, are under arrest, but police continue to look for three others.

Howard McNeal, a victim of the check fraud, comments, "It's still hard to believe this ever happened to us."

Howard and his wife Linda returned from a vacation last September to find a huge stack of mail waiting for them. There was only one problem, the new checks Linda had ordered weeks before were missing.

Howard explains, "Someone had went through our mail box, stole the box of checks that we had ordered and were writing checks."

After getting a call from their bank asking why their account was over-drawn by $5,000, the McNeals finally realized what was happening.

"They immediately wiped us out of our bank account, right away. So we found ourselves coming back from vacation and our bank account was wiped out," says Howard.

The McNeal's weren't the only ones targeted. According to the sheriff's office, some residents had money stolen from their credit card accounts.

Sgt. A.C. Powers says, "The rest of the checks that were used were when your credit card company sends you these checks where you can fill out and get money on loans, most of the checks were this type of check."

The McNeals say after a month of wrangling with their bank and the sheriff's office, they got all of the money back the suspects had taken. They're now trying to prevent this from happening again.

Howard explains, "We've made arrangements with our bank to have our checks delivered there and we pick them up. Also, we're in the process of changing our mailbox to a P.O. box."

The McNeals also say the most frustrating part of the ordeal is that many of the banks the men used to cash the forged checks reportedly never checked for identification. They think that could have prevented their money from being stolen.