AUSTINTOWN — An elderly man is in jail after being accused of robbing a township bank this week.

According to an Austintown police report, Forrest B. Lytell, of Idaho Road, less than a week after his 83rd birthday, walked into the PNC Bank on Mahoning Avenue on Wednesday, waited in line and then handed a teller a note effectively saying “give me all the money or else.”

When police arrived about 10:20 a.m., the bank’s alarm still was going off and the bank was in lockdown. Police were able to enter through a window and spoke to the teller.

The woman described a short, white man in glasses and a ball cap. She told police she filled a bag with $319 in cash from her drawer, $250 in bait currency — a set of bills with specific serial numbers, used to catch bank robbers, and $40 in tracked currency. After taking the money, he fled through the front door, the report states.

The tracked currency gave police a GPS signal that they followed to 72 Anderson Ave., a road just north of Salvatore’s Italian restaurant.

Police swarmed the area and located Lytell almost immediately. They arrested him without incident. The report states that when police arrived, the arresting officer saw Lytell trying to flee into the nearby woods. The officer, Sgt. Rick John, told Lytell to “stick em up” and Lytell complied. John’s report states that Lytell understood all his rights and when asked if he had anything to say, Lytell — unaware of the tracking device in his stolen money — asked “how did you guys find me so fast?”

The report states that Lytell directed police to the money, which he had attempted to hide beneath the back corner of a shed on the Anderson Avenue property.

The report states that Lytell called in a false robbery complaint at that same bank an hour earlier.

A separate report states that after determining there was no active robbery going on, police went to his home and asked him about the call. The report states he was elusive at first but did eventually admit to making the call because he said he saw a suspicious person at the bank, and told police he did not expect there would be such a large response to his call.

Lytell is charged with one count of robbery, a second-degree felony, and inducing panic, a first-degree misdemeanor. Court records do not show that he has yet made an appearance in Mahoning County Austintown Court.