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1831–2027 · THE COUNTY SUCCESSION AT BOUNDARY SIZE
Because the township ground outside the town line is the county's to police outright, and because the town's grave cases go to the county as well, the county layer is load-bearing in this section — printed here at boundary size, the county build owning the succession whole. The sheriff's line opens with the 1831 frame of the article above and is carried in the modern era by the anchors every build in this county prints: Sokol, elected in 1966; Speybroeck, holding the office 1995–1998; Canarecci, who resigned in 2010; Grzegorek, elected that November; Redman, holding 2019–2026 and term-limited out; and Ruszkowski, who takes office January 1, 2027. The prosecutor's line matters to this section's center case, and its modern anchors stand: Michael P. Barnes, the prosecutor who in 1990 set the standards agreement under which the county's adult stores claimed to operate; Chris Toth, who filed the Pleasureland charges and held the office through the raid and the restraining orders; Michael Dvorak, in office from 2003, who closed those cases by plea; Kenneth Cotter, holding the office through 2026; and Cressy, who takes office January 1, 2027. The county jail in South Bend receives every Osceola arrest the town or the sheriff makes.
One county institution of this section's period deserves its boundary line entire, because Osceola ground would have fed it: the County Metro Homicide Unit, the joint unit that worked St. Joseph County's killings from 1993 until its dissolution on January 1, 2022. In the whole of that span, no Osceola or Penn Township case stands in the record reached for this build for the unit to have worked — the unit's dissolution changed the county's homicide machinery without ever having been Osceola's story — and grave-case investigation on Osceola ground today runs through the sheriff's and state police detectives under the prosecutor's direction, as it did before 1993.