CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police this morning arrested a man suspected of robbing as many as 40 banks, including three in the Charleston area.

A Missouri state trooper pulled over a red Dodge Shadow driven by Joseph Paul Young, 37, of Rogersville, Mo., around 8 a.m. for a registration violation, said Sgt. Dan Bracker of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Young was headed west on Interstate 44 about 25 miles west of Springfield, he said.

The car was traveling at 40 miles per hour on the highway, where the speed limit is 70 mph, he said.

Police believe Young may be responsible for robberies in multiple states, including South Dakota, Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota and West Virginia, most recently at the Summit Community Bank at Southridge Centre on Aug. 19. Authorities have dubbed him the "Plaid Shirt Robber" because surveillance footage shows him wearing plaid shirts in multiple robberies allegedly committed by Young.

Charleston police identified Young last week after a citizen saw someone driving a truck with out-of-state license plates acting suspiciously on Tuesday. Detectives matched photos of Young with his bank account information after he used an ATM at a different bank earlier that morning.

Young evaded FBI agents and members of the Missouri Highway Patrol when they tried to arrest him at his house last week by speeding off in his truck. After he crashed his truck, Young jumped into a body of water and because of darkness and inclement weather, officers were unable to track him after the culvert emptied into a nearby river, Charleston Police Sgt. S.A. Cooper said last week.

The traffic stop and the arrest took place Thursday without incident, Bracker said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police this morning arrested a man suspected of robbing as many as 40 banks, including three in the Charleston area.

A Missouri state trooper pulled over a red Dodge Shadow driven by Joseph Paul Young, 37, of Rogersville, Mo., around 8 a.m. for a registration violation, said Sgt. Dan Bracker of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Young was headed west on Interstate 44 about 25 miles west of Springfield, he said.

The car was traveling at 40 miles per hour on the highway, where the speed limit is 70 mph, he said.

Police believe Young may be responsible for robberies in multiple states, including South Dakota, Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota and West Virginia, most recently at the Summit Community Bank at Southridge Centre on Aug. 19. Authorities have dubbed him the "Plaid Shirt Robber" because surveillance footage shows him wearing plaid shirts in multiple robberies allegedly committed by Young.

Charleston police identified Young last week after a citizen saw someone driving a truck with out-of-state license plates acting suspiciously on Tuesday. Detectives matched photos of Young with his bank account information after he used an ATM at a different bank earlier that morning.

Young evaded FBI agents and members of the Missouri Highway Patrol when they tried to arrest him at his house last week by speeding off in his truck. After he crashed his truck, Young jumped into a body of water and because of darkness and inclement weather, officers were unable to track him after the culvert emptied into a nearby river, Charleston Police Sgt. S.A. Cooper said last week.

The traffic stop and the arrest took place Thursday without incident, Bracker said.

"[There was] no confrontation whatsoever. He was very compliant," the trooper said.

The trooper who arrested Young did not know he was wanted on multiple felony warrants until he ran his identification through his computer, Bracker said.

"Something is not right when somebody is on the interstate traveling 40 miles an hour," he said. Apparently, Young could not get his car into fourth or fifth gear, he said.

Young was transferred to the custody of the Greene County Sheriff's Department, he said. Bracker did not know when Young would be arraigned or what his status is regarding extradition to West Virginia.

Because Charleston police cracked the case by identifying Young, local authorities will likely get first shot at prosecuting him, Cooper said last week.

Read more in Friday's Charleston Gazette.