An Evanston man was arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with a bank robbery after officers found $1,600 in the crotch of his pants, police said.

Kevin Turner, a 27-year-old resident of Greenwood Care, 1406 Chicago Ave., a nursing home for people with mental disabilities, matched the descriptions given by five witnesses at the bank. He was arrested at his home about 30 minutes after the robbery at LaSalle Bank, 1336 Chicago Ave.

A suspect later identified as Turner had threatened to blow up the bank if the teller did not hand over $10,000, said Cmdr. James Pickett of Evanston Police Department.

Officers found the $1,600 in Turner’s pants at the police station after his arrest. Police said they found an additional $113 of stolen money in Turner’s apartment.

Police also found two $10 bills with serial numbers that are registered by the bank, Pickett said. The registered numbers allow banks to determine whether the bills came from the bank.

Turner, who lives less than a block away from the bank, told police he was stressed because his aunt had just died. Turner was silent and put his head down when officers showed him still shots from the bank’s security videotape of the robbery, Pickett said.

Turner had walked into the bank at 3 p.m. with a hood pulled over his head and approached a banker at a teller window without any customers, Pickett said. Turner told the banker he wanted to open an account.

When asked for identification, Turner requested a piece of paper and wrote a note that said he wanted money and that he had two bombs, Pickett said. Turner did not actually have the weapons.

Turner then said he would blow up the bank, and another teller gave Turner $50, $20, and $10 bills, police said. Turner left the bank at 3:11 p.m. after he got the money.

The investigation has been turned over to the FBI office in Rolling Meadows, Ill., because robbing a bank is a federal crime, Pickett said.