BANGOR – One of two men accused in the reported armed robbery of a Bangor pedestrian earlier this week remained in the Penobscot County Jail late Thursday night unable to make bail.

Melvin Gay, 19, address unknown, appeared Thursday in 3rd District Count in Bangor on a robbery charge. Bail was set at $5,000 or $20,000 surety.

A probable cause hearing was set for Jan. 5. If he is indicted by the Penobscot County grand jury before then, the hearing will not be held.

Gay was charged with Class B robbery rather than Class A robbery because he told police that the gun was not real, according to court documents.

He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the crime. If Gay were to be charged and convicted of the Class A crime, he would face up to 30 years in prison.

According to police, one of Gay’s co-workers saw composite pictures of the two black male suspects on television and told police that she recognized them. Late Wednesday and early Thursday, police interviewed her and other people who identified themselves as Gay’s acquaintances.

Gay was arrested after a friend accompanied him to the Bangor police station at about 3 a.m. Thursday, according to court documents.

He allegedly told police that he and a friend, Duane “Black” Brown, 20, address unknown, decided to scare a man walking ahead of them on Essex Street about 10 p.m. Tuesday. Gay said that he met Brown last year at the Penobscot Job Corps Center in Bangor, according to court documents.

Gay, who wears glasses, said that he wrapped his scarf around his head over his baseball cap. Then he and Brown ran up to the victim and told him to “run out” his pockets. The victim told the police that the man without glasses pointed the gun at him.

After the man gave them the $32 in his wallet, they ran off, Gay told police, according to court documents.

The man who was robbed gave police descriptions of the two men that were used to make the composite pictures. He said that both were black and in their mid-20s. One man was about 6 feet tall, weighed 170 pounds and wore rectangular-shaped glasses, a baseball cap and hooded sweat shirt pulled up around his face.

The second man, who allegedly wielded the gun, was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed about 140 pounds.

Gay told police that he did not know where Brown was living or how to get in touch with him, according to court documents.

Bangor police continued to search on Thursday for the other suspect.