Police in North Carolina have spent the past three months searching for an elderly Caucasian bank robber , but instead found a 28-year-old African-American suspect with a penchant for disguise . Benoit Constant , of Maryland , was arrested in Texas during a traffic stop and identified as a suspect in the robbery of a bank in Cornelius , North Carolina , back in December . Police say Constant , who is black , wore a lifelike mask during the heist that made him look like an elderly white man . Master of disguise : Benoit Constant ( left ) , 28 , was arrested on robbery charges after police say he held up a North Carolina bank while wearing a lifelike mask of an elderly white man ( right ) Lifelike : Constant 's disguise was recovered from a van that was found in Maryland a week after the robbery . Target : Constant is suspected of robbing the Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union in Cornelius on December 29 . Constant is facing charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon , making a false bomb threat , evading arrest and failure to identify . He is being held on $ 70,000 bond . Benoit Constant is suspected of robbing the Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union in Cornelius on December 29 , reported WCNC . Surveillance video from inside the bank showed a white man in dark sunglasses , a baseball cap and blue gloves pointing a handgun at a bank teller with one hand while holding a bag for the cash in the other . Partner in crime : Milandra Constant , Benoit 's alleged accomplice , has been charged with making a false bomb threat to create a diversion during the robbery . During the heist , someone also called in a false bomb threat to the Lake Norman YMCA on the other side of town , in what investigators believe was a diversion created by Constant 's accomplice to draw police away from the credit union . CCTV cameras captured images of the same silver van with a Delaware registration near the targeted bank and the YMCA , which officials later tracked down to Maryland about a week after the robbery . Constant 's alleged partner in crime , Milandra Constant , was behind the wheel of the vehicle . Inside , police found a lifelike mask resembling the bank robber and the striped bag seen in the surveillance footage , according to WSOC-TV . At around 11.30am on Sunday , Benoit Constant was traveling southbound on US-28 in Wichita Falls , Texas , when state troopers stopped his Lexus for a traffic violation . Constant initially gave the troopers a fake name , but when they ran his plates , they found out that the motorist was wanted in North Carolina on robbery charges . The 28-year-old man bolted out of the car and tried to flee on foot but was quickly apprehended in a residential neighborhood . The suspected bank robber is currently awaiting extradition to North Carolina to face charges in connection to the December heist . Milandra Constant , the man 's alleged accomplice , has been charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and making a false bomb threat .
Benoit Constant , 28 , charged in December 29 robbery of Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union in Cornelius , North Carolina . Police say Constant , who is Caucasian , wore a lifelike mask during the robbery that made him look like a African-American man . Constant was arrested in Texas after being pulled over for a traffic violation . Alleged accomplice Milandra Constant was arrested in January for calling in a fake bomb threat to create a diversion during bank heist .