A 30-year-old Brunswick man under indictment for trafficking in drugs was arrested Monday in Biddeford and charged with robbing an Arundel credit union last week.

Travis Leeman, 30, of 34 Kimberly Circle, Brunswick, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the federal charge of bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II said in a release issued Tuesday.

Detectives identified Leeman as their suspect, using a business logo seen on surveillance footage on the side of his truck, and allegedly overheard him tell his wife he robbed a bank, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Special Agent Patrick M. Clancy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Leeman allegedly entered the Infinity Federal Credit Union in Arundel the morning of May 29 and stole $7,691 at gunpoint.

Employees of the credit union told detectives — and surveillance footage from security cameras allegedly corroborates — that shortly after 9:30 a.m. that day, a white male wearing a yellow rain suit and orange face mask entered the credit union, brandished what appeared to be a semi-automatic pistol and demanded money.

A man police now identify as Leeman then climbed over the counter into the teller area and ordered tellers to empty drawers into a backpack style cooler, and they complied.

“The male ordered the tellers to the ground and threatened that there was a partner outside … (saying) words to the effect that he did not want there to be a ‘shootout,’” Clancy wrote in the complaint.

Surveillance footage from the Biddeford Walmart, where police say Leeman purchased the cooler he used in the robbery, shows a man police say is Leeman leaving in a white Ford pickup truck with a specific business logo on the driver’s side.

According to the complaint, police tracked that vehicle to the Arundel Ford dealership, and determined from the logo that Leeman was the sole operator of a vehicle for that business in Biddeford.

A tracking device on the truck allegedly showed it had stopped at the Biddeford Walmart just after 9 a.m. that morning, then traveled within a quarter-mile of the credit union.

On Monday, York County Sheriff ’s Office detectives determined that Leeman was on bail conditions requiring that he submit to drug testing, and he was taken to the sheriff ’s office. The complaint alleges that detectives overheard

Leeman on the phone with his wife telling her he robbed a bank. Leeman’s wife then allegedly confirmed to an FBI agent that Leeman admitted he robbed the bank, documents indicate, and during a search of their Brunswick home, agents discovered a handgun fitting the description of the weapon used in the robbery.

Later on Monday, according to the complaint, Leeman admitted to the robbery.

Leeman is currently under indictment by a Cumberland County grand jury for a Class A count of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs and a Class B count of trafficking in scheduled drugs.

In April, Brunswick Police Detective Rich Cutliffe said Leeman allegedly sold 30 Oxycontin pills at an undisclosed location in town on Nov. 30, 2011.

That case had not yet been resolved, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office said Tuesday.

At a preliminary hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Leeman was ordered held without bail and remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Darcie McElwee.

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