BOSTON -- Two men were arrested Friday after FBI agents and state and local police said they attempted to rob an East Weymouth bank.

The Patriot Ledger reported John Handley, 42, of Quincy, and John King, 42, of Boston, were arrested and charged with attempting to commit a crime, armed robbery while masked, receiving a stolen motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit a crime and possession of burglary tools.

Weymouth police told the paper they had received information that Handley and King allegedly had plans to rob the bank. FBI agents, Weymouth detectives and a state police SWAT team then set up surveillance outside the bank in question at about 7 a.m.

A short time later, authorities told the paper that the men were spotted checking out the bank from a friend’s vehicle for several hours. The men also stopped at a nearby department store to buy disguises, including wigs and fake mustaches.

The Ledger reported at 11:30 a.m., the pair returned to a stolen vehicle they had allegedly left parked on Wharf Street and began to put on their disguises and rubber gloves.

The state police SWAT team moved in and arrested Handley and King without incident.

Weymouth police Lt. Rick Fuller told the paper police found a sledgehammer and crowbars inside the car. He said the two men were planning to go into the bank, brandish the hammer and crowbars and threaten violence to get employees to hand over cash.

“Had we not known about it, we probably would have been responding to a bank robbery,” Fuller told the Ledger. “They went through it exactly how we found out they were planning it.”

Handley and King were being held at Weymouth Police headquarters on $100,000 bail and were due to be arraigned in Quincy District Court on Tuesday.