ATLANTA - Arrest warrants were issued Monday for four people in a suspected fraud ring that police say stole a deployed soldier's credit card and ran up more than $6,500 in charges to upgrade the ring's burglary tools.

Investigators say the suspects broke into Master Sgt. Sylvia Simmons' Stockbridge home while she was deployed to Afghanistan. The home was ransacked and the thieves stole furniture, clothes, jewelry and Simmons' Lowe's credit card.

Warrants were issued for Franklin Delano Cartledge III, 29; Brandon David McElwaney, 22; Kevin Lee Segars, 30; and Kelly Louise Flowers, 23.

Henry County Police Capt. Jason Bolton said the suspects used the credit card at Lowe's stores in McDonough, Stockbridge and Riverdale, buying power tools, generators and other tools.

"They purchased bolt cutters and other burglary tools," he said. "It looks like they are upgrading their burglary tools with this victim's credit card."

The investigation began in September when Simmons' daughter stopped by her mother's home and found the front door had been kicked in.

The daughter boarded up the home, but the suspects returned the next day and took the few items they had left behind. Fingerprints confirmed it was the same suspects, Simmons said.

Simmons said she thinks the suspects knew she was out of town. She said she thought she had locked all of her credit cards in a safety deposit box at a bank, but the next month she got a bill from Lowe's.

Simmons, a mother of three, has spent 30 years in the Army National Guard.

"Hopefully we're going to break this ring down," she said. "What makes me sick is that every day we're in a combat zone fighting for these people's freedom."

The thieves were captured on security cameras at the stores and were identified after the photographs were published and police received tips, Bolton said.

McElwaney and Segars are wanted on financial transaction card fraud charges while Flowers is wanted on an identify theft warrant.

Cartledge is charged with two counts of financial transaction card fraud. He is being held in the Clayton County jail on unrelated charges. Jail records show he was arrested last month on charges of armed robbery, kidnapping, aggravated assault and failure to register as a sex offender.

Police are also searching for a fifth suspect, who has not been publicly identified. Officials are still investigating the suspects to see if they are tied to any other crimes.