ORANGE PARK – An elderly Fort White resident didn’t make it far after stealing a bag of cash from the Bank of America near the Orange Park Mall Monday morning.

At around 10 a.m. Clay County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers received a 911 call from the bank which reported that Noel Arthur Johnson, 75, had handed a teller a threatening note demanding money.

“He didn’t show a weapon but he implied based on the note that he gave to the teller that he had a weapon with him,” CCSO information officer Keith Smith said at a press conference at the bank July 23.

He fled down Interstate 295 until he was stopped at the I-295/I-10 intersection by a joint effort between the Florida Highway Patrol, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and CCSO.

“It worked out good partnering with those [agencies] that are around us,” Smith said. “We had a good ending to this incident today. No injuries were reported, obviously you can imagine the tellers and the workers inside the bank are a little shook up.”

Once he was arrested at the scene, paramedics arrived to check over the robber after he reported feeling light headed and because of his age, police said.

“It was an older gentleman that was involved in this incident so for precautionary reasons they had rescue come around there and just check him out,” Smith said.

According to the CCSO report, $1,760 was recovered from the vehicle. After his arrest, police transported Johnson to the Clay County Jail where he was booked on felony charges for armed robbery with a deadly weapon other than a firearm. He is being held on a $10,000 bond and will appear in court on Aug. 29.

“In the past, when these type of crimes happen, people would come over from Duval or surrounding counties and commit crime here in Clay and then jump back on I-295 or jump back over into Jacksonville and think, ‘Hey we’re gonna’ be safe and you can’t come and catch us’,” Smith said. “Well, now we have things in place to combat that and this one worked out just like it was supposed to.”