The man suspected of robbing an East State Street bank earlier this year has been arrested in Illinois right after robbing a bank there, law enforcement officials 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 the FBI office in Dayton.
Ronald Corbin, 49, of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested by an Illinois police department on Sept. 10, after he allegedly robbed a bank there at gunpoint, according to a media release from the Urbana Police Department in Illinois.
Corbin did not act alone in the Urbana robbery, the release said, and authorities believe another man, Dennis Gallivan, 58, was Corbin’s getaway driver.
At this time, Thomas said there is no evidence Gallivan collaborated in any of the robberies Corbin is suspected of perpetrating.
“(We) have not seen any evidence to determine he was involved," Thomas said. "That’s not to say he wasn’t involved in that capacity. We would have to develop that evidence.”
But Corbin is being investigated for at least five different bank robberies, with two in the Dayton area, one in Urbana Il., one in Hamilton, Ohio, and the Chase Bank, 920 E. State St. in Athens.
Corbin is currently being held in Urbana, Thomas said.
Thomas did not say whether Corbin would be charged in multiple local courts or as one federal case, as that distinction will be made by federal and local prosecutors at a later time.
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