A Butler Township man confessed that he robbed a downtown Butler bank last week, according to testimony at a hearing Monday.

Butler police Capt. David Dalcamo testified that 32-year-old Cyrus V. Smith “admitted to robbing” the Citizens Bank branch April 7.

The alleged admission — two days after the heist — was made during an audio and video recorded interview at the city police station.

Dalcamo’s testimony, which lasted no more than a couple of minutes, came at the end of Smith’s preliminary hearing before District Judge Pete Shaffer.

Moments earlier, a teller at the bank at 301 N. Main St. pointed at Smith as the man who robbed him a week ago.

Shaffer ordered Smith held for court on a charge of robbery. He remains in the Butler County Prison on $125,000 bail.

Adam Hunia, a teller/manager at the bank, said he had just finished a transaction with a customer and was straightening up his cash drawer about 10 a.m. April 7 when a man walked in.

The man, later identified as Smith, handed Hunia a handwritten note.

“It said empty my drawer, no alarms, he didn’t want to a hurt anyone and he had a gun,” Hunia told prosecutor Richard Bosco, a county assistant district attorney.

He told Smith’s attorney, public defender Kimberly Hudak, that he never saw her client with a gun.

The teller took the note and placed it on his computer keyboard. The robber next handed the teller a plastic bag for the money.

Hunia said while he filled the bag he made his own mental note of the suspect’s attire — a white Pittsburgh Steelers ball cap, sunglasses and dark jacket — and physical characteristics — about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and a goatee.

He knew those details would aid investigators tasked with solving the crime.

“That’s part of our training by Citizens Bank,” Hunia told Hudak.

After the teller put several stacks of currency in the bag, the robber stated, “that’s good.” Hunia said he handed the bag back to the suspect, who left.

He didn’t know how much he had placed in the bag. Why not? Bosco asked.

“I was scared,” Hunia replied. He said the bank later determined $3,095 was taken.

Before Smith walked out the door, Hunia said “I hit my button,” which activated a camera as part of the bank’s security system. The camera took several still photographs of the robber.

Hunia said he then pressed his wireless pendant that alerted 911 and the bank’s security command system. No one was hurt in the robbery.

Soon after being called, police posted on the department’s Facebook page photographs of the robber taken by the bank’s security system. Within minutes, they started getting calls, which kept coming.

The callers recognized Smith as the suspect, according to court documents.

Police later prepared a photographic array with Smith’s picture in it. Hunia said he identified Smith as the robber from the series of photographs.

In charging documents, Dalcamo said he learned the suspect had showed up for work that day at United Plate Glass in Connoquenessing Township at 6:45 a.m., but punched out at 8:30 a.m.

Later, Dalcamo went to Smith’s home, where he lives with his mother. She, too, identified him from the photographs taken by the bank’s surveillance system.

Acting on a tip, city officers joined by Butler Township police showed up about 10:15 p.m. at the Super 8 motel in the township. They found Smith in a third-floor room littered with empty bags of suspected heroin, syringes, a crack cocaine pipe and other contraband.

On the defendant and in the room were hundreds of dollars in currency, police said, presumably a portion of the stolen bank money.