An Oak Harbor man accused of committing a botched bank robbery Nov. 28 may be facing more than three years in prison, court documents indicate.

Prosecutors charged Joshua P. Freeman, 32, in Island County Superior Court last month with first-degree robbery.

If convicted of the charge, Freeman would face from 31 to 41 months in prison under the standard sentencing range.

Freeman is being held in jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Freeman allegedly rode a bus to the bank, donned a mask made out of a shirt and walked across the street afterward, where police found him rifling through the bag of money, according to the police report.

An employee at Whidbey Island Bank on Bayshore Drive called 911 at 10:30 a.m. to report that a masked man walked into the bank with a bag and demanded money.

The robber, later identified as Freeman, walked quickly in with a mask on and told two tellers to give him 100s, 50s and 20s; he didn’t display a weapon and none was found on him, the police report states.

Freeman allegedly left the bank with $5,900 in his bag, saying he was “sorry” on the way out.

The first police officer to arrive at the bank saw Freeman walking east along State Highway 20 and going behind a condominium complex before crossing the street to kneel next to a pillar near the former WhidBerry business, the report states.

The officer asked one of the victims to come out of the bank and look across the street at Freeman.

The woman identified Freeman as the suspected robber, the report states.

Freeman was still kneeling behind the pillar, digging into the backpack when the two officers walked up to him.

Freeman allegedly admitted to robbing the bank, the report states.

Freeman said he and his girlfriend were sick from heroin withdrawal. He said he couldn’t take it anymore and decided to rob a bank, explaining that it was something he had thought about doing before, the report states.

“Freeman states he was going to use the money to get well by buying heroin,” the report states. “Freeman states he had been going through withdrawal for the last two days.”