Tinker Federal Credit Union said Thursday it intends to keepopen the high school branch that was the scene last week of analleged attempted robbery by a student who later told authoritieshe was just kidding.

Oklahoma City police arrested Rayqwonn Deion Chatman, 16, foralleged attempted robbery of the branch at John Marshall HighSchool on Jan. 18.

Police said Thursday the investigation has been concluded andwas turned over to the Oklahoma County District Attorney's officefor prosecution.

“We have been in conversations with the school district aboutcontinuing our communications with the students about what isappropriate and what's not,” said Matt Stratton, vice president ofmarketing for Tinker FCU.

“We have every plan to continue with the branch at the school.It is part of their financial academy,” Stratton said.

In addition to its John Marshall High School branch, the creditunion operates school branches at Crooked Oak Public Schools andMetro Technology Centers, both in Oklahoma City. Stratton said theyhave had no issues at those branches.

Oklahoma City Public Schools officials said they held meetingswith John Marshall High students shortly after the attemptedrobbery and will continue to work with Tinker FCU on educatingstudents of the consequences of such actions.

Before the incident occurred, school officials had posted a signat the branch warning that students who insinuate or pretend tohold up the TFCU branch will be arrested and prosecuted.

According to police reports, Chatman walked up to the counter inthe Tinker FCU branch with his hands inside the pockets of hishoodie. He raised his right hand up that gave the appearance of agun in his right pocket and said: “Give me some money,” to a TinkerFCU teller.

The teller, who was assisting two other student tellers, toldChatman he could be in a lot of trouble for this action, and one ofthe students attempted to get Chatman to leave the branch, thepolice report said.

But the 6-foot, 170-pound Chatman refused and stood in front ofthe teller for about 30 seconds before he finally left the branchwithout any money, police said after reviewing the security camerafootage.

The teller told police she did not think Chatman had a gun butthat she wasn't sure. It turned out he did not have a gun and,without incident, police took Chatman into custody in the school'sgymnasium.

Police said Chatman claims he was only joking about robbing thein-school branch. Witnesses said they thought it was a joke atfirst, too, but then stated they didn't know because Chatman becamevery aggressive and very forceful in demanding money and pointinghis so-called gun. He left the bank with witnesses believingChatman possibly had something in his pocket.

Last year, a seventh-grade student walked into the school'sTinker FCU branch and joked about robbing it. But a policeinvestigation determined the student was joking and no charges werefiled, according to Oklahoma City Police.