The search is on

for a would-be bank robber who struck Wednesday

morning in north Fayette County.

The Talbot State

Bank at 3000 Ga. Highway 138, near the Clayton

County line, was hit at about 10:45 a.m.,

according to Maj. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette

County Sheriff's Department.

The perpetrator was

described as a black male in his early 20s, of

medium height and a slender build, wearing a blue

hat, a yellow shirt with a dark collar,

eyeglasses, baggy shorts below the knee, and

tennis shoes.

He entered the bank

and began making small talk with a teller before

asking for a pen, sheriff's office reports say.

He then took a piece of paper from his pocket and

wrote a note instructing the teller to hand over

all of the money, warning her not to give him

money with enclosed dye packs or do anything

foolish, Jordan said.

However, because he

demanded all of the money, the teller was forced

to give him the dye-marked money as well,

according to reports. The robber pulled his own

blue plastic bag out of his pocket and put the

money in it before fleeing on foot, the sheriff's

office said.

As he entered the

thick brush behind the bank, the dye pack

exploded, said Jordan, adding that the robber

then lost his eyeglasses as he fled the scene.

Authorities recovered the glasses, along with

most of the money, and possibly all of it, Jordan

said.

There are several

good pictures of the suspect that were taken with

the bank's video equipment, and still pictures

could soon be available, according to Jordan.

"The bank

employees did an excellent job," said

Jordan. "The photo equipment worked well. He

[the robber] left us with a lot of evidence to

work with."

As of Wednesday

afternoon, authorities in Clayton and Fulton

counties were taking part in the investigation,

and Fayette County authorities were putting

together lineups for witnesses. The Federal

Bureau of Investigation also responded to the

incident, Jordan said.

The suspect has a

tattoo on each side of his neck, with the

inscription "Little Bit" or "Lil

Bit," said Jordan.

The bank first

opened for business in December of last year.

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