A former police chief's arrest in connection with a bank robbery in Simpsonville is a 'cry out for help', a man that's known him for years said.Richard Inman, who was the Williamston police chief until his resignation in 2011, is accused of walking into the Bank of America on Fairview Road, handing a teller a note stating that he was armed and demanding money.A surveillance picture showed a man who officers said is Inman before he left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money."I am just shocked; really almost just disbelief that Richard would do something like this. When he came here as police chief he was a great police officer. He really came here and went to work and went after the drug dealers and was cleaning that up. He had some programs -- the neighborhood watch and where the kids would come to see the police. Then, he had this brain tumor which they removed, and he was never the same after that," said former Williamston Mayor Carthel Crout.Crout said he hadn't heard from Inman in three years, but said Inman's father died a couple of years ago and he was having trouble with employment and was living with his mother."I hate to see this happen to a good man, but I also think that this might be a cry out for help. Why would a man in his hometown of Fountain Inn and Simpsonville rob a bank in broad daylight with no disguise, no anything? So he could get some help, that's my opinion," Crout said.Inman was arrested at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in Franklin County, Georgia, Simpsonville police investigator Cheryl Manley said in a release.Inman is the custody of Simpsonville police. His bond was set at $100,000. If released, he will be on house arrest.