SIDNEY, Ill. (WAND) - A Champaign man was arrested after a bank robbery in Sidney Monday afternoon.

The Champaign County Sheriff's Office said that deputies responded to a hold-up alarm around 1:45 p.m. at Longview Bank in Sidney.

Bank employees told deputies that a man, later identified as 32-year-old Caleb Estabrook from Champaign, passed workers a note demanding money.

Estabrook had then exited the bank with a "large sum" of money and escaped in a vehicle.

The sheriff's office said that the vehicle was eventually spotted in the 2600 block of West Springfield Avenue in Champaign, and deputies attempted a traffic stop before Estabrook fled the scene.

Estabrook was said to have led deputies on a short chase, which ended when his vehicle crashed near the intersection of John Street and

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