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1997–98 and 2022 · Elkhart, Mishawaka, South Bend corridor — no hit on Osceola town ground
The 2022 Thorington series is the corridor's documented linked note series, from the federal criminal complaint (E.D. Mich., Case 2:22-mj-30263, filed June 7, 2022): Deandre Thorington, with driver Jeremy Martin, is charged with fifteen robberies, February 11 – June 6, 2022, across five states, every one note-passed — napkin notes reading "give me all your money I'm armed" and "I am armed, empty all your drawers." The Indiana hits in the complaint include 1st Source Bank, Elkhart (February 11, 2022, about $9,300–9,400) and Flagstar Bank, South Bend (March 10, 2022, about $1,110). There is no Osceola or Penn Township hit in the series — there is no bank on that ground to rob — and the complaint's full list was checked for one. The series' disposition (sentence) was not found in the sources reached, and prints as not found, as the row's own instruction allows. The 1997–98 gang prints at index strength with its trap labelled: the South Bend Tribune's indexed abstracts (1999) record a Benton Harbor man sentenced to nearly 111 years as ringleader of a gang that robbed four banks "in Elkhart and Osceola" in 1997 and 1998. Read against the FDIC branch record, the natural reading is the Osceola Branch of 1st Source Bank, 4720 Lincolnway East, Mishawaka — a branch named Osceola, seated in Mishawaka (art-75-10) — not a bank in the town of Osceola, which had none. The identification is printed as the natural reading of an abstract, not as proven from it; the full Tribune text is paywalled, and its reading is the named settler for raising this above index strength. A 2002 regional item (Michigan City and South Bend note robberies possibly connected; deposit-slip note, no weapon displayed) is corridor material only and seats nothing here.
Named gap: the Thorington disposition and the full text of the 1999 Tribune sentencing items — settler: the E.D. Mich. docket for Case 2:22-mj-30263 and the Tribune's 1999 file (ProQuest index reached; full text paywalled).
Sources: U.S. v. Thorington, criminal complaint, E.D. Mich. Case 2:22-mj-30263 (June 7, 2022); South Bend Tribune index abstracts (1999), via ProQuest newspaper index; FDIC branch record, 1st Source Bank Osceola Branch, Mishawaka.