POMEROY — An Athens man arrested Friday in Mississippi has been charged with the Sept. 1 armed robbery of the Farmers Bank and Savings Co. branch in Tuppers Plains.

Sheriff Robert Beegle said Sean Bradford Mitchell, 41, of Schaefer Street, Athens, was arrested in Ocean Springs, Miss., Friday, for allegedly robbing the Merchants and Marine Bank there. Beegle said a customer of the bank who witnessed the robbery followed Mitchell to an apartment building, where he was arrested.

Mitchell allegedly used a handgun in the Mississippi robbery.

Beegle said law enforcement officers were at the apartment complex at the time, serving a warrant in an unrelated case, and took Mitchell into custody. Beegle said the charge of aggravated robbery filed Friday in Meigs County Court will serve as a holder on Mitchell, requiring him to answer the charge here before he is set free.

During questioning in Mississippi, Mitchell allegedly confessed to the local robbery, admitting he carried a rock in a grocery bag into the Farmers Bank office and told tellers it was an explosive device.