AUSTINTOWN TWP., Ohio -  The employee of a Premier Bank branch in Austintown expressed disbelief when she was handed a note informing her that the bank was being robbed.

That’s according to a police report filed following the arrest of a 45-year-old New Middletown man for allegedly robbing the branch on Kirk Road late Friday.

The report said a man wearing a mask handed over a note that simply read “This is a robbery”.

The employee told police that she replied, “No way!”, to which the robber responded, “Yes. Hurry!”.

At the instruction of the robbery, the employee emptied the cash drawer of an estimated $5,000.

The robber drove away in a Pontiac which police say was found later burning on Loveland Avenue on Youngstown’s South Side. Police say the car had been reported stolen earlier in Boardman.

Police say they found Robert Porter walking along Midlothian Boulevard and booked him into the county jail on a robbery charge.

Porter is scheduled for arraignment in County Court Monday afternoon.