A bank robber who handed a teller a piece of paper with his name and address on it before holding up the bank pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court.

Jared B. LaChance, 22, walked into the Great American Federal Savings & Loan in Munhall at 2:10 p.m. June 27 and handed the teller a check-size piece of paper with his name, address and phone number printed on it.

The teller thought it was a check reorder slip and put it on a counter behind the teller station.

When the teller turned back around, LaChance produced a second piece of paper, this one demanding money.

"No exploding ink," it read. "Put the money in the envelope. Don't look up. Hurry up!"

LaChance left with $4,046 and the demand note, but without the first piece of paper.

When FBI agents showed up to investigate, they knew right where to go: an apartment on Park Avenue in West Mifflin. Tellers also described LaChance and picked him out of a photo lineup.

It's not clear why LaChance handed over the original piece of paper, although it's possible that he intended to present the demand note and got the two mixed up.

He didn't provide an explanation in court and neither did the prosecution.

Based on information from the most recent robbery, a district justice issued an arrest warrant for LaChance in June.

State police arrested him in Carlisle on July 13. After his initial court appearance in Harrisburg, a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh handed up a one-count indictment.

Senior U.S. District Judge William L. Standish set sentencing for May 5. LaChance will remain in custody until then.