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At around 3:30 p.m. on August 18, officers responded to the Truist Bank on Warrenton Road and Plantation Drive, to find the bank had been robbed and the suspect was no where to be found, according to the Stafford County Sheriff's Office.
While law enforcement and a K-9 searched the scene, an officer got word of an intoxicated man entering vehicles in a nearby Target parking lot, police said.
Jeremy Peters, 40, who had fled the bank on foot and who was believed to be armed in the incident, was arrested for robbery and public intoxication, authorities reported.
Police said they knew Peters was both the robber and the drunk man entering vehicles because he matched both suspect descriptions and had stolen money, as well as a robbery note in his pocket.
He was held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond, officials said.
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