CHAMPAIGN — Champaign police have arrested one man and are looking for a second possible suspect in connection with a robbery Friday evening at a loan company.

Detective Dale Rawdin said about 6:30 p.m., a man entered the World Finance Corporation, 902 N. Country Fair Drive, C, and did not imply that he had a weapon but said words to the effect of 'I don't want trouble. I just need the cash.'

Rawdin said the female employee handed over an undisclosed amount of cash in a bank bag and the man left through the front door. The employee did not see which way he went.

Rawdin said there were several officers in the area and within moments they found a man on a bicycle near Church Street and Country Fair Drive who had a World Finance Corporation bank bag on him.

However, when the employee was brought to the location to identify him, she said he was not the man who robbed her but identified him as Paul, who had previously worked at the company for about a week.

Rawdin said based on statements he made, police arrested Paul Eugene Brown, 41, who listed an address on Sherwood Court.

Rawdin said they are still looking for a black man in his mid-20s, who had short hair and was wearing dark clothing and a dark ball cap.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 217-373-8477.

Brown, meantime, remained in the Champaign County jail Saturday on preliminary charges of robbery and theft. Because he is still on parole for 1989 convictions for armed robbery and attempted murder, Brown cannot be released from the county jail until the pending charges are resolved.

He was convicted of a January 1989 armed robbery of a clerk at a motel in the 1200 block of North Mattis Avenue and of attempted murder for trying to shoot Champaign police officer Albert Morgan with Morgan's service weapon. Morgan had confronted Brown in a yard on Hedge Road about a half-hour after the motel holdup and the two wrestled on the ground, resulting in Brown being shot in the leg.

Brown was sentenced to 40 years in prison in May 1989 and was paroled in January 2009. He is supposed to be off parole in January, according to Department of Corrections records.