BIDDEFORD – Police arrested a 46-year-old Scarborough man in connection with an armed robbery at Maine Bank and Trust, 28 Adams St., which happened at about 10:45 this morning.

According to the police, Robert E. Patch, of Dunstan Avenue in Scarborough, walked into the bank, took out a weapon and told a teller to give him all the money she had. The teller complied, and also activated the alarm in her drawer, according to JoAnne Fisk, spokeswoman with the Biddeford Police Department.

Patch left in a car, but bank employees passed on his license plate number and vehicle description to the police, Fisk said. Biddeford police put out a statewide alert, and Patch was pulled over along Route 1 in Saco shortly afterwards.

The FBI was notified, and Patch was turned over to FBI agents from the Portland office, Fisk said. Federal armed robbery charges are expected to be filed through the federal court system.

Biddeford police did not release information about the type of weapon used or the amount of money taken in the robbery.