Olling and Ptak, and the Ash Road question: two named gaps, stated exactly

Olling and the regional manager Ptak (Goalie Entertainment Inc.) were each charged with fifteen misdemeanor pandering-obscenity counts, Ptak additionally with corrupt business practices and conspiracy to launder money, Olling additionally with racketeering, money laundering and obstructing justice, with their trial first set for February 25 in the 2001 reporting. It carries the case's hinge: Judge Beamer's 2002 ruling suppressing the seized videos in Ptak's case, on the grounds that the February 2001 search lacked probable cause, that the 2000 buys were stale, and that no neutral judicial officer had pre-determined obscenity — a ruling expected at the time to reach Olling's and the Balanows' cases alike. And it carries the 2003 ending for the stores: the plea article names exactly two signers, Edwin Balanow for Pleasureland and ABV Management Inc. — Adult Emporium's owner — for that store, each on one misdemeanor count of distributing obscene material, under the headline's $1,000 fines.

A corporation's plea is not its managers' dispositions, and the record reached does not say whether Olling and Ptak individually pleaded, were dismissed in the suppression ruling's wake, or went to trial. Their final dispositions close NAMED GAP. Settlers: the St. Joseph Superior Court files in Ptak's and Olling's own causes; the Tribune archive. The Ash Road question closes the same way, with its two-sided state printed exactly. On one side, the official record ties 56415 Ash Road into the case corporately: the 2001 temporary restraining orders name both Pleasureland addresses, and the Balanows faced their nineteen counts as the stores' owners. On the other side, no separate Ash Road cause appears in any appellate or index record reached, and the 2003 plea report names only the Mishawaka Avenue store. Whether the Osceola store was separately charged closes NAMED GAP — settler: the St. Joseph County court files. The township's one address in the county's largest obscenity case is documented as a raided, restrained and corporately charged premises; whether it was ever a separately charged one is a court-file question, and it is left as one.

Sources:

1. This build's Crime & Public Safety (pass O-4) — Olling's and Ptak's charges as banked (fifteen misdemeanor pandering-obscenity counts each; Ptak: corrupt business practices, conspiracy to launder money; Olling: racketeering, money laundering, obstructing justice; trial first set February 25); Beamer's 2002 suppression in Ptak's case and its expected reach; the 2001 TROs naming 114 W. Mishawaka Ave. and 56415 Ash Road (banked).
2. South Bend Tribune, 2003, "Obscenity cases end with plea, $1,000 fines" (MBRL index abstract) — signers Edwin Balanow (Pleasureland) and ABV Management Inc. (Adult Emporium) only; one misdemeanor distributing-obscenity count each.
3. Appellate sweep, November 2026 — no opinion or index abstract reached carries Olling's or Ptak's personal dispositions, or a separate Ash Road cause. Settlers named: St. Joseph Superior Court files (Ptak, Olling); St. Joseph County court files (Ash Road charging).