Authorities captured three suspects in an Avinger bank robbery Friday evening while a lone gunman held up an Arp bank in an unrelated incident that remained at large Friday night. There was approximately $8,000 taken in the Avinger robbery that day. The money as recovered late Friday night when the Dallas Police arrested Sammie Lee Ervin, of Dallas, at an East Dallas apartment. Ervin was arraigned before magistrate and charged with bank robbery at around 10 p.m. Friday. The Arp gunman took an amount of money that was undetermined and neither the robber nor the money had been found Friday night. Also charged in the Avinger robbery were Otis Smith Jr., 20 and a juvenile, both of Dallas. The two suspects were arraigned before Gladewater Justice of the Peace Jack Finley, who set bond at $50,000 for each suspect. Both men were transferred to Cass County Jail in Linden, where they remained in custody Friday night. The suspect in the Arp robbery was described as in his late 30’s, standing about 5-foot-10 with thinning brown hair. He was found in a green sports jacked and open-necked sorts shirt. He was last seen leaving the scene in a yellow 1971 Ford Torino with Texas license plate FMC-740. The automobile was last seen on State Highway 135 heading toward Troup. Gladewater Police Chief Oris B. Morrow and Patrolman Tom Spencer apprehended the Avinger suspects round 10:55 a.m. only an hour after the suspected robbery. Officers confiscated a .22-caliber revolver and a .38 caliber automatic fitting the description of weapons used in the Avinger holdup. The trio of robbers entered the Avinger bank shortly after it opened Friday morning and instructed three female bookkeepers Elvira Ellison, Kaye Faulkner and Shirlie Downs, to lie down on the floor while the bank president James Capps and two other employees were herded into the safe. After getting the money, the three robbers locked Capps and the other employees in the vault but had to reopen the vault to allow Capps to unlock the bank’s locked front door. Capps said the robbers were "too nervous to be professionals." The suspects were in the bank for only five minutes before leaving the scene in a blue Gremlin, reportedly firing two shots in the air s they fled from the scene. The suspects escaped the scene at better than 100 miles per hour, forcing Avinger constable G.T. Starrett off the highway in the process. They later abandoned the Gremlin and fled the scene in an orange and black Volkswagen, the vehicle the two suspects were driving when arrested. The Arp holdup took place around 12:30 p.m. Friday, as a lone gunman wearing sunglasses held bank president John Mills Parker and a female teller at gunpoint while filling a black suitcase with currency. About three minutes after entering the bank, the robber, who repeatedly told bank employees "Not to touch a buzzer or phone or I’ll kill you," fled the scene in the 1971 Torino. Bank president Parker said shortly after the robbery that the suspect "looked about eight feet tall and carried cannon" but authorities later pinned the suspects.