BANGOR (AP) – A Windham man has been sentenced to 140 months in prison for a bungled holdup at a Gardiner credit union in 2003.

After a trial in Bangor, a federal jury last September found Michael Mahone, 26, guilty of attempted armed robbery.

Witnesses at Mahone’s trial testified that he used duct tape to tie up employees of the Gardiner Federal Credit Union and threatened them with a gun and a knife. But he couldn’t get any money because the time-controlled vault had been locked before he entered the building and it couldn’t be opened again.

Mahone was arrested the following month in Conway, N.H., after police received a tip from a relative that led them to a restaurant where Mahone was working. He had a sport utility vehicle that had been reported stolen, prosecutors said.

Other court testimony showed Mahone had $20,000 in credit card debt and $14,000 in student loan debt, and had taken $1,200 in receipts belonging to a Portland Burger King restaurant where his former girlfriend worked.

At the trial, Mahone said he did nothing wrong and had been forced by an unnamed individual to do the robbery.

AP-ES-03-26-05 1401EST