Gaffney Police Chief Rick Turner (foreground) works his cell phone as Gaffney Police and other law enforcement authorities respond in full force to a bank robbery at the Sun Trust Bank on West Floyd Banker Boulevard on Monday morning. A man walked into the bank, presented an allegedly threatening letter to a teller, and fled with an undisclosed amount of money. The suspect was arrested on Interstate 85 in Cleveland County, N.C.A Charlotte, N.C., man was taken into custody on Interstate 85This photograph released by Gaffney Police was taken from a bank video surveillance camera. in Cleveland County, N.C., shortly after a bank robbery occurred at the Sun Trust Bank on West Floyd Baker Boulevard on Wednesday morning.
Gaffney Police Chief Rick Turner said police were called to Sun Trust Bank at 9:38 a.m. after a man walked into the bank and handed a note to a teller.
Turner said no gun was presented or shown to the teller but he classified the note as "threatening."
A police report released a short time later revealed that the note said: "You have 20 seconds to give me $3000 dollars in an envelope."
According to Turner, "The teller did what she was supposed to do to get him out of the bank."
The robber then fled with an undisclosed sum of money to a gold Jeep Cherokee parked at the Town & Country Apartments, across Ellis Ferry Avenue from the bank, and drove towards Interstate 85.
"Officers arrived quickly and we were able to get a description out," Turner said.
The gold Jeep Cherokee was stopped by police on Interstate 85, at Mile Marker 8, in Cleveland County, N.C.
The suspect was identified in a police report as Howard Burton Means, 23, of Oak Street, Charlotte, N.C.
Following the traffic stop, Gaffney Police wrote in a report, Det. Lt. Ron Ramsey and Det. Sgt. Brian Blanton went to Cleveland County "where the subject confessed and the money was recovered."
Turner said Gaffney Police will be seeking the suspect's extradition to South Carolina. 
No one was hurt during the robbery.
As of 11 a.m., police cars still were surrounding the Sun Trust Bank and investigators still were interviewing employees. Video surveillance from inside the bank was being retrieved as well.
Asked about the employees inside the bank, Turner said, "When anything like this happens, it will shake you up. Rightly so."
More details will be made available online and in print as they become available.