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The scenario, as related by a special agent of the FBI, reads like scenes from a B-movie script.

Two men, one armed with a sawed-off shotgun and the other masked, enter a bank. All the customers and employees are ordered to get down on the floor. The man with the shotgun holds the victims at bay while the other jumps the counter, pulls money from the teller drawers, including banded bills containing a dye pack. He stuffs the money into a pillow case.

The armed man vaults the counter, grabs more money and puts it into a plastic container. They both flee the bank on foot.

That's how Special Agent Mickey Nocera described the action in his complaint filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Knoxville with U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Bruce Guyton. The setting was the BB T Bank in Seymour about 3 p.m. Friday.

Three men, two Seymour brothers and a Knoxville man, face federal bank robbery and weapons charges in connection with the robbery of the branch located at 10232 Chapman Highway.

Criminal complaints charge Michael Ogle, 29, of Seymour, his brother Jeremy Ogle, 27, also of Seymour, and David Christopher Rutledge, also known as Christopher Wooten, 25, of Knoxville, with bank robbery and use of a firearm during commission of a felony, the FBI said in a press release.

According to the complaint written by Nocera, as the masked man and the armed man ran to a waiting purple Dodge sedan with a getaway driver, the dye pack inside the pillow case was activated. The pillow case was dropped and the two men got into the car and drove off at a high rate of speed.

The car was damaged when it was driven through a ditch and dripped oil until it became disabled a short time later in Sevier County, according to Nocera's affidavit.

A man driving a Ford F-350 saw the damaged car, stopped to help and was ordered into the back of the truck at gunpoint. The three suspects got in the truck cab and drove off, later stopping to release the man and abandoning the truck at Island Home Baptist Church in Knoxville, the complaint reads.

According to Nocera's complaint, the FBI had information about one of the suspects before the robbery. A confidential source had informed authorities that a convicted bank robber named Michael Ogle was planning another heist in the Knoxville area. The BB T Bank victim's description and the surveillance photographs convinced the FBI that the armed robber and Michael Ogle were the same man. Using more information, the FBI tracked him to a Rugby Avenue residence in Knoxville.

Around 4 p.m. Friday, police arrived at the house and found one woman and seven men, including the Ogle brothers and Rutledge. The Ogles ran but were quickly apprehended, according to the complaint.

The three suspects had money in their pockets, including stacks of bills banded with BB T bands from the Seymour branch. Michael Ogle had 12-gauge shotgun shells in his pocket, and a New England Arms 12-gauge shotgun loaded with matching shells was found in a nearby carport, the complaint reads.

According to the special agent's account, the suspects were read their rights and all three allegedly confessed to the bank robbery, carjacking and kidnapping -- Michael Ogle to being the armed robber, Rutledge to being the unarmed robber who jumped the teller and Jeremy Ogle to being the getaway driver.