A 62-year-old man reported to police that a man with a handgun approached him outside his home and ordered him to drive to a bank to withdraw money from his account, Lt. Chuck Mason said.

On the way to the bank, the victim and the gunman picked up a woman from her Southwest Roanoke County home, Mason said.

When the trio got to Valley Bank in the 4400 block of Starkey Road about 9 a.m., the gunman stayed outside while the victim and the woman went inside and gave a teller a handwritten note alerting them to lock the doors.

Police arrived about four minutes later, but the gunman had fled, Mason said.

Barbara S. Assan, 32, is believed to be acquainted with the victim and was originally charged with petit larceny because investigators believed she stole the victim's checks. She was later charged with abduction, attempted robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.

Investigators later found a handgun believed to have been used in the crime inside a trash bin just two blocks away near the intersection of Electric and Starkey roads.

John T. Miller, a 19-year-old transient, is suspected of being the gunman, Mason said. He was taken into custody late in the afternoon by police in Roanoke.

Tiffany Brown, 21, of Roanoke was arrested in the Cloverdale area by Botetourt County sheriff's deputies.

The three were being held in the Roanoke County-Salem Jail late Thursday.