Two Gilmer County men are being held in Central Regional Jail in Flatwoods for possession of stolen property, allegedly linked to a robbery of the Burnsville Branch of the Bank of Gassaway yesterday.
Tim "Elvis" Putnam, 20, and Matthew Putnam, 22, are reportedly connected to what Burnsville residents said was an armed robbery Friday afternoon.
Early Saturday morning, charges have yet to be brought for anything other than possession of stolen property.
Two men reportedly came to the bank on a 4-wheeler, holding up the tellers at gunpoint.
They left Burnsville on the ATV as a search began in Braxton, Lewis and Gilmer County.
The bank manager said no was injured in the hold-up.
The bank is located next to a Go-Mart, just off the I-79 exit at Burnsville.
Police have arrested a man accused of robbing the City National Bank at Beaver, Raleigh County.
The sheriff's department says 30-year-old Lawrence Roy Richards the Second, who lives part-time in Beckley and part-time in Alabama, was arrested and charged with bank robbery and aggravated robbery.
The sheriff's department says Richards also allegedly robbed a man while he was waiting in line at the bank.
In a third bank robbery, a Pendleton County man is facing an armed robbery charge in connection with the hold-up of the North Fork Branch of Grant County Bank in Riverton.
Nineteen-year-old Mark Long of Circleville was arrested five hours after the robbery.
State Police say a man matching Long's description entered the bank just after noon yesterday brandishing a pistol. The suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Long was spotted walking along Snowy Mountain Road, about eight miles from the crime scene.
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