Grant Lind allegedly was a dumpster diver with a lot of patience and a talent for putting together puzzle pieces . Lind , 49 , was charged last month with 44 felony counts in connection with a check counterfeiting scheme , according to authorities who say he gleaned bank account information from shredded checks he plucked from a Valencia dumpster . The Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department launched an investigation after a Castaic church reported bank account information had been stolen and used to write counterfeit checks . Detectives discovered 20 different victims , all Santa Clarita Valley residents and businesses , who had one thing in common . They had written checks to Valencia Self Storage in Valencia . When investigators searched Lind ’s residence in Newhall last October , they found check printers , computers and “ bags and boxes full of these shredded documents , ” said sheriff ’s Det . David Lingscheit . Lind would allegedly take a bag of shreds , divide the contents into smaller boxes and then assemble the pieces , each about 2 inches long and a quarter - inch wide , on top of the box and piece together bank account and routing numbers . He then used the information to print and write more than 30 counterfeit checks worth about $ 16,000 , authorities said . ;