The man suspected of robbing a bank on East State Street in Athens earlier this year has been arrested by Illinois police, authorities said.
“We are looking at him as a potential suspect based on physical description and method of robbing the bank,” said Eric Thomas, supervisor for Dayton’s FBI office.
Ronald E. Corbin, 49, of Lafayette, Ind., was arrested by the Urbana Police Department in Illinois on Sept. 10, after he allegedly robbed a bank there at gunpoint, according to a news release from Urbana Police.
Corbin did not act alone in the Urbana robbery, the release said, and Thomas added that a man named Dennis P. Gallivan, 58, also of Lafayette, was allegedly Corbin’s getaway driver.
The two were pulled over as they drove away, police said. Evidence, including a handgun matching the description of the one used in the Urbana robbery, was found in the car.
Corbin is being investigated for at least five different bank robberies, with two in the Dayton area, one in Urbana, Ill., one in Hamilton, Ohio, and the robbery of Chase Bank, 920 E. State St. in Athens.
Corbin was arrested in his home state in November 2012 for a “theft” of which he got off with less than $100,000, according to the Tippecanoe County Court, though documents didn’t say exactly how much was taken.
At this time, Thomas said there is no evidence Gallivan is connected to any of other the robberies Corbin is suspected of perpetrating.
“We would have to develop that evidence,” he said.
Corbin is currently in federal custody at the Champaign County Correctional Center, officials said.
Thomas did not say whether Corbin would be charged in multiple local courts or as one federal case, adding that federal and local prosecutors would make that distinction at a later time.
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