The man who pleaded guilty to robbing Alpine Bank in Dillon in November 2010 was sentenced to 10 years in prison, the minimum mandatory sentence for his crime, District Attorney Mark Hurlbert announced this week.

Lincoln Carpenter, 24, entered a guilty plea to charges of aggravated robbery in September.

He will serve his sentence in a state prison.

Carpenter, originally from Massachusetts, was arrested two days after he entered Alpine Bank in the fall of last year, demanded money from a teller and threatened to use a weapon.

High-quality photos of Carpenter taken by the bank’s surveillance cameras and the suspect’s footprints in the snow leading away from the bank helped authorities make a fast arrest.

On the afternoon of Nov. 22, 2010, Carpenter entered the Alpine Bank branch in Dillon and passed a teller a note that read: “This is a robbery, put $2,000 in an envelope and I will not discharge my weapon,” according to the DA’s statement.

He was given the cash and fled the scene on foot, through the nearby Walgreens parking lot and down a hill to the house where he was living.

As members of the community came forward to identify the suspect in the surveillance photos that had been circulated, authorities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office and the Dillon Police Department followed the culprit’s footprints in the snow with police dogs.

Carpenter was discovered two days later at the house where he was living, along with evidence linking him to the robbery.

He committed the crime soon after moving to Summit County from Massachusetts, where he had been sentenced for a previous armed robbery that involved breaking and entering into someone’s home.

The DA’s office asked that Carpenter be given the maximum sentence of 20 years, based on his “his criminal history and the seriousness of this crime,” according to the release. Fifth Judicial District Judge Mark Thompson gave him 10 years, saying he needed rehabilitation, the statement said.

When Carpenter was arrested authorities recovered $1,597 of the $2,000 stolen. He will be required to repay the rest of the money.