A Carbon County lawyer is in the Schuylkill County prison charged with robbing a bank Tuesday morning.

State police at Schuylkill Haven said Steven M. Cormier, 57, of West Catawissa Street, Nesquehoning, was arrested a short time after he robbed the Wells Fargo bank branch office, located in the Fairlane Village Mall in Norwegian Township.Troopers said Cormier entered the bank about 10:45 a.m. and approached employees, demanding that he wanted money now and if he doesn’t get money “things will get ugly.”After a teller filled a plastic bag Cormier supplied, he left the bank.Shortly after, Pottsville city police stopped Cormier. He was taken back to the bank and identified as the robber by three witnesses.A search warrant was obtained for his vehicle and found was the clothing he was wearing in the robbery, along with the plastic bag that was used and all the money that was taken. It totaled $15,923. No injuries were reported in the incident.State trooper Chad Smith of the Schuylkill Haven barracks charged him 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 arraigned before on-call District Judge James Reilly of Pottsville and committed to the county prison after failing to post $100,000 straight cash bail.Cormier has been an attorney for over 30 years and was employed by the Kovatch Corporation in Nesquehoning, as in-house legal counsel from August 1984 through May of this year.Cary Sinclair, the attorney’s mother, said that he fell on hard times earlier this year and lost his job, according to The Associated Press.She said he was taking care of her, because she’s disabled.A records check revealed that on Jan. 2 the Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against Cormier alleging he owes $24,355.17 in back taxes.