Authorities said the man believed to be tied to bank robberies in two states including one last week in Dearborn has been arrested in southern Missouri.

Jesse Bud Leaverton, 58 of Okla. was arrested Thursday around 6 a.m. by the Missouri Highway Patrol and the Northern District of Oklahoma United States Marshals Services Fugitive Task Force on a federal warrant.  Leaverton was taken into custody without incident near the intersection of Highway 60 and South Farm Road 119 between Republic and Springfield.

On June 21,a Federal Arrest Warrant was issued for Leaverton, for the bank robbery on June 18 at the Arvest Bank in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Leaverton is a person of interest in additional bank robberies in Oklahoma and Missouri including the Platte Valley Bank robbery last week in Dearborn.