Officers arrested Joseph Franklin Brown, 24, and William Cordell Johnson, 37, at an apartment in the 3000 block of Lake Woodard Drive, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said Saturday in a news release.

Brown and Johnson were charged with being fugitives from justice in connection with the Sept. 24 kidnapping of a bank manager and her two children in St. Mary's County, Md. The kidnappers forced the manager to take money from the bank, police reported.

Maryland investigators say the kidnapping and robbery took place shortly after 7 a.m., when two men dressed in camouflage approached the bank manager and her two children -- a 1-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl -- as she was leaving her home in Lusby, Md.

Maryland police have accused Brown and Johnson of ordering at gunpoint the woman and her children to her vehicle, a 2008 Chevy Tahoe. They then ordered her to drive to a PNC Bank, where she removed an undisclosed amount of cash and returned to the sport utility vehicle, police reported.

The men ordered the woman back inside the Tahoe. One of the kidnappers drove to an elementary school, where she and her children were released unharmed, police reported.

The kidnappers drove away from the school in the woman's SUV and eventually abandoned the vehicle at a CVS pharmacy. At least one of the kidnappers was seen fleeing on foot, police reported.

Maryland police alerted Raleigh police Friday night that Brown and Johnson were seen in the area, according to a press release.

Two hours later, the Raleigh police units for tactical response, drugs and vice, and robbery arrested the men without incident, police reported.

Police took Brown and Johnson to the Wake County jail Saturday just before 7 a.m., a jail spokesman said. They are each being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

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