U.S. prosecutors have charged Samuel Atchley with bank robbery in the bomb threat and holdup of a Centerville credit union last week.

Atchley, 29, allegedly told a teller at the Mountain America Credit Union branch in the 12:20 p.m. Oct. 15 incident that two men had strapped a bomb to him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in charging documents. The prosecutors followed up Monday with a request in U.S. District Court that Atchley stay jailed pending trial because of the violent nature of the crime.

The indictment alleged that Atchley handed a note to a teller saying no one would be harmed if they complied with his demands. He left with a bag containing $688 and a GPS tracker the teller inserted, the document said, adding that Atchley discovered the tracker and threw it away.

FBI agents arrested Atchley at a Murray motel several hours after the robbery, tracking him there by surveillance video allegedly showing his vehicle arriving at and leaving the credit union. They said in the detention memo that Atchley had a jacket matching the one seen on video and that there was a Mountain America bag in his vehicle. No bomb was found.

The FBI said a woman who was with Atchley at the motel said he called her at about 5:30 p.m. and said “some s— went down” and he wanted to meet her face to face. She said after arriving at the motel, Atchley allegedly told her he robbed a bank and described to her many of the specifics of what happened in Centerville.

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