Two men suspected of robbing a downtown Anchorage bank Thursday morning were taken into custody as they tried to fly out of Alaska early Friday, the FBI said.

The 23-year-old suspects, Kaleem Tikori Fredericks and Calel Calvis Alexis Crofford, were taken into custody at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport just after midnight, FBI spokesperson Staci Feger-Pellessier said in a statement.

The FBI released surveillance video of two men who robbed a Wells Fargo branch on East Fifth Avenue just before 10:15 a.m. Thursday, armed with a pistol and a shotgun.

"Airport police recognized (Fredericks) and (Crofford) from pictures that were released yesterday afternoon," Feger-Pellessier wrote. "The officers detained the suspects until FBI special agents arrived on the scene."

Both men were taken into custody "with no incident," Feger-Pellessier said.

Frank Russo, deputy criminal chief at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Anchorage, said both men had plane tickets for the Caribbean.

"They were traveling alone to St. Thomas, in the (U.S.) Virgin Islands," Russo said. "They were planning on going to Miami and from there to the Virgin Islands."

A criminal complaint filed Friday against the alleged bank robbers asserts they made off with nearly $26,000 from the bank. FBI Special Agent Berry Vaughan wrote in the complaint that one of the suspects went behind the counter and collected money from all the tills he could get into. The men are also accused of pointing a handgun and a sawed-off shotgun at bank employees and customers.

Two people tipped off the FBI about the identities of the alleged robbers.

Another witness told authorities he saw the bank robbers get into a silver minivan, which they found suspicious because it had been backed into a parking spot and was running. Vaughan wrote a similar vehicle was spotted fleeing an early Thursday morning attempted break-in at the Jewelry World kiosk at Dimond Mall.

The people who tried to rob the kiosk wore similar clothes to the bank robbery suspects, according to the complaint.

During their interviews with law enforcement, Fredericks admitted to committing the robbery while Crofford maintained his innocence. Crofford told authorities he arrived at the airport with Fredericks, his cousin, and the two were booked on the same flight and planning on continuing to St. Thomas, but they weren't traveling together.