AUBURN – A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he robbed a Lewiston bank, fled the state and broke his foot jumping off the roof of a motel.

Christopher Cook, 35, of Lewiston held up Community Credit Union on a June afternoon. He demanded cash from a new teller, slipping her a note that said: “I want all big bills, 20s, 50s and 100s. No dye packs or I will kill everyone.”

While she was looking for a bag to put the cash into, a male bank employee approached Cook and asked him to take off the hood that covered his face.

The teller told Cook she couldn’t find a bag and handed him more than $2,000 in cash. He took the money and started to leave when the male bank worker asked Cook what he was doing with all that money, police wrote in an affidavit. Cook said it was a “transaction,” then ran out the door.

Included in the wad of cash given to Cook was so-called “bait money” that had traceable serial numbers.

Police released surveillance video to the public and learned Cook’s identity. Police later learned that Cook, his girlfriend and their child took a cab to the local bus station a day after the robbery. A worker there said Cook bought a bus ticket to Hyannis, Mass., with the stolen cash. The bus ticket agent said Cook had a large wad of bills in his hand when he paid for the three tickets.

Cook, a Cape Cod native, was arrested in South Yarmouth, Mass., after he jumped about 25 feet from a motel roof in an effort to elude police. He was treated for a compound fracture on his right foot, according to news reports.

Police had followed a family member to the motel where Cook was staying. Confronted by police, he ran out of his room and climbed to the roof of the three-story building, press reports said.

Police recovered $760 of the stolen cash.

Cook appeared in a wheelchair in Androscoggin County Superior Court for his arraignment on a robbery charge. A jury convicted him in November. He was sentenced Thursday to the maximum, 10 years. He also was sentenced to six months in jail on a charge of violation of condition of release, which he is expected to serve before his prison sentence.

Cook has two earlier robbery convictions as well as forgery and assault on an officer.