A Maryland man who is believed to have robbed at least eight banks between Georgia and Pennsylvania is in custody in Baltimore and will be prosecuted federally. That includes the February 9 Southern Bank robbery in Roanoke Rapids.

Zachary Scott Shanaberger, 30, of Salisbury, Maryland, was captured October 31 in Baltimore, said Captain Andy Jackson of the Roanoke Rapids Police Department.

He was caught driving on a revoked license and was allegedly driving a stolen vehicle.

Shanaberger never allegedly used in a gun in any of the bank robberies, Jackson said, only passing tellers notes. Jackson declined to discuss the content of the notes.

Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Roanoke Rapids police and agents developed Shanaberger as a suspect last month, although Jackson declined to elaborate. “We view this as a collaborative effort between the FBI and the Roanoke Rapids Police Department.”

The man fled Southern Bank that afternoon with an undisclosed amount of cash, Roanoke Rapids police said.

The robbery occurred shortly before 4 p.m. when a person described as a young white male wearing a ski hat and sunglasses entered the bank on 10th Street and demanded money from a clerk, Deputy Chief Adam Bondarek said.

He left the bank through the back door and was last seen running toward the residential section behind the institution.

One customer was in the bank at the time of the robbery.

The Carroll County Times in Maryland reported Shanaberger was arrested in Howard County for driving a stolen vehicle, according to a release from the Westminster Police Department.

He was held at the Howard County Detention Center, where a warrant for the bank robbery was served on him, according to the release. He was held on $250,000 bail on the robbery charges.

A bank employee told police a man gave her a note that said he had a weapon and would hurt her and others if she didn't give him cash, according to court documents.

According to the documents, three March bank robberies in Anne Arundel, Howard and Frederick counties featured similar suspect descriptions and methods.

An investigator from the Anne Arundel County Police Department alerted Westminster

Police said that police in Prince George's County had gotten information from an informant that Shanaberger had told him he'd robbed at least eight banks in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, according to the documents.

Shanaberger's former girlfriend told police she'd seen pictures on an FBI website of three Maryland bank robberies that she believed were of him, including the BB&T robbery.

Shanaberger has also been charged with armed robbery, robbery and theft of between $1,000 and $10,000 in the robbery of a Bank Annapolis in Anne Arundel County on March 6.

Detective Cpl. Jeffrey Schuster, of the Westminster Police Department, said Shanaberger had charges pending in other jurisdictions.

Howard County Police Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Schroen declined to say whether Shanaberger was a suspect in the Howard County robbery. It's the department's policy not to name suspects unless they've been charged, she said.

According to a release from Howard County police, Shanaberger was arrested Sunday at the Lisbon park and ride in the 15900 block of Frederick Road in Woodbine as he slept in a vehicle that had been reported stolen Oct. 28.

Police allegedly found a knife, suspected heroin and drug paraphernalia in the car.

He's charged in Howard with motor vehicle theft, drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, carrying a concealed dangerous weapon, theft and unauthorized removal of property.

The vehicle Shanaberger was sleeping in was found by a patrol officer with an automated license plate scanner, a device mounted in police cars that can rapidly scan license plates on parked or moving vehicles and is used to locate stolen vehicles.