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OCR: Dumptster Divers SEATTLE-Forget Bonnie and Clyde. Lawmen here are calling Jane Lunbeck and her all-women Dumpster divers the bank-robbery ring of the '90s. Ms. Lunbeck and her four other gang members didn't make their money busting through bank doors brandishing machine guns. They did it the hard way. "They'd go through the Dumpsters behind the banks looking for stuff," says King County Deputy Prosecutor Brenda Bannon. What they found would have made Willy Sutton Smile. "Load applications, credit reports, signature cards, deposit slips and thousands of checks," says Detective Denise Pentony of the King County fraud unit. Detective Pentony says that the gang used the throwaways to tap bank accounts of unsuspecting customers for at least $250, 000. She adds that several gangs are working the ...