Carbon County attorney Steven M. Cormier has been charged with robbing a bank in Schuylkill County.

According to online court documents, Cormier, 57, of Nesquehoning, was charged Tuesday by state Trooper Chad Smith of the Schuylkill Haven barracks with felony counts of robbery, with a threat of immediate serious injury and robbery, demanding money from a financial institution; 12 felony counts of terroristic threats; felony counts of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property; and a misdemeanor count of possession of instruments of crime.

Cormier was arrested shortly after the robbery, which happened at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Bank in the Fairlane Village Mall, Pottsville.

He was arraigned before District Judge David A. Plachko of Port Carbon.

Details, including the amount taken and whether bail has been set, were not immediately available.

According to his LinkedIn account, Cormier listed his occupation as general counsel for Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp., Nesquehoning, from August 1984 through May of this year.