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Bank robberies in this region are rarely single jobs. Robbers pass notes, work two cities in a week, and get charged as a series, so a robbery test that only asks whether one teller on this ground was robbed would miss the pattern the record actually uses. The banked fragment never mentioned the note-passer or the linked series. Run against this ground, the pattern produces two documented series — and neither one touches the CDP.
The first is the deposit-slip series of 2002. The South Bend Tribune reported that police in Michigan City and South Bend were investigating a connection between robberies in the two cities: the robber had scribbled a request for large bills on a bank deposit slip and handed it to the teller, then walked to a Family Express and fled west on U.S. 20. LaPorte County's chief of detectives, Dick Buell, put the link on the record: the physical descriptions were similar, and no weapon was displayed in any of the South Bend robberies, even though a note given to a teller stated the robber had a gun. The series is a South Bend and Michigan City series. No Granger institution appears in it, and no disposition of the series appears in the record; the honest close is that the link was investigated in 2002 and a disposition was not found.
The second is the paired robbery of 2012. The Tribune reported that South Bend police believed the same suspect robbed a Check 'n' Go in Berrien County, Michigan, on a Monday and the Notre Dame Federal Credit Union in the 2100 block of East Ireland Road on the Wednesday. Sergeant Dave Beaty of the South Bend Police Major Crimes Unit stated the link; a female drive-through customer at the credit union saw the man carrying a gun and called police. East Ireland Road is in South Bend, south of the city — the credit union robbed was a Notre Dame FCU branch, but not the Granger branch at 14535 State Road 23, and the pairing crossed a state line rather than the CDP line. A third item belongs to the same pattern at federal size: the U.S. Attorney's record for the Northern District of Indiana carries a run of credit-union and bank cases — Fort Wayne, Kendallville, Marion, Hammond, Michigan City, and a November 2019 pair in Mishawaka and South Bend — every one of them seated in another city. Dennis Love, a South Bend man, drew 114 months for robbing a Consumers Credit Union in Kalamazoo and three other Michigan institutions in 2013: a South Bend name, Michigan crimes. The series pattern is real in this region; on the record reached, no series includes a Granger branch, a Granger teller, or a Granger scene.