The trooper says he stopped Young on Thursday morning for a registration violation on his red Dodge Shadow, and because Young was driving about 45 miles per hour westbound on Interstate 44 at mile marker 42, just west of Mount Vernon.

Sgt. Dan Bracker, a spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Troop D, says it turns out fourth and fifth gears in Young's vehicle didn't work, which is why he was driving so slow. A reporter noticed evidence in the car later that shows Young may have been headed west toward Washington.

The arrest was about 8 a.m. Bracker says Young offered no resistance. Young just handed over his driver's license and surrendered.

“He didn't try to give a fake identity or anything like that. He was cooperative. He was handcuffed and put in the patrol car,” said Bracker.

Bracker said the trooper did a computer check that revealed multiple felony warrants on Young. They include a warrant for robbery in Charleston, W. V., for robbery with a firearm in Elizabethtown, Ky., and for a violation of probation and parole on a conviction for robbery in Missouri.

Charleston police and the FBI identified Young as a suspected serial bank robber last week after a holdup in that city. A witness who saw the getaway vehicle was able to supply a license plate number that let law officers connect the robbery to Young.

On Aug. 20, officers went to Young's home near Rogersville to talk to him or to try to arrest him. He fled in a pickup that he abandoned north of Rogersville, where he ran into the woods.

Searchers used tracking dogs but couldn't find Young. They called off the active search after several hours.

“We were confident he was still in the area, and we were hoping he would turn up, possibly on a traffic stop, and that's exactly what happened,” said Agent-in-charge Dean Bryant of the FBI’s office in Springfield. “We're totally ecstatic about it.”

 Law officers suspect Young of robbing banks in Kentucky, South Dakota, Minnesota, Ohio and West Virginia in the last 14 months.  The name, Plaid Shirt Bank Robber, is from the flannel shirt that the robber wore in each robbery.  He did not wear a mask.

“We're still receiving phone calls on different bank robberies. The publicity that this got, thanks to the media, we've got different jurisdictions calling us that we had no idea were even possibilities of bank robberies. We're looking at possibly 20 at this time, but it may go higher,” said Bryant.

The FBI will take custody of Young and move him to different jurisdictions to face federal bank robbery charges.