SKOWHEGAN - Authorities in Maine seek to extradite a 20-year-old Bronx, N.Y., man for his alleged role in the July 23, 2008 armed robbery of a Madison credit union.

Jose A. Flores of 155th Street, is being held in New York City on a Class A felony robbery charge, Evert Fowle, district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties, said Thursday.

Flores was indicted on a single count of robbery by a Somerset County grand jury last week. He faces up to 30 years in prison on the charge.

State, county and local police were dispatched to the Franklin Somerset Federal Credit Union on Main Street, Madison, around 11 a.m. July 23 after bank tellers reported being robbed at gun point.

Two black or Latino men in their late teens or early 20s reportedly entered the credit union, displayed a handgun and demanded cash.

The men were said to be of slim build, wearing hooded sweatshirts and some kind of masks over their faces.

They made off with an undisclosed amount of money in a car that was waiting for them at the Madison boat landing.

"Mr. Flores is in custody in New York City," Fowle said.

"We have initiated extradition proceedings to get him back up here to face prosecution here."

Fowle said Flores is fighting extradition, a process that could take three or four months to finalize.