AUBURN – Police say a man posed as a state drug agent and held a Lewiston woman at gunpoint in her bathroom while his accomplice stole her pocketbook in 2004.
His accomplice, it turns out, was the woman’s nephew, police said. He wore a ski mask to hide his identity from her, police wrote in an affidavit filed in Androscoggin County Superior Court.
Jesse Hiscock, 23, of Livermore Falls, who police say impersonated a Drug Enforcement Agency officer during the Oct. 20 robbery, is due in court Tuesday on a motion to suppress statements.
The woman told police she had been asleep when Hiscock knocked on her door shortly before midnight, giving a false name.
When she opened the door, he forced his way into her Wood Street apartment brandishing a .38-caliber handgun.
He directed her into the bathroom where he made her sit on the toilet while he stood in the doorway.
She told police she heard somebody else enter the apartment and go into her bedroom. She asked Hiscock if he had a search warrant. He said he did. When she asked to see it, he told her to wait.
She got up, squeezing past Hiscock and heard him call to the person in her bedroom. Then the bedroom door slammed shut, she said. She fled the apartment to a neighbor’s and called police.
Later, she told police her purse was missing from the bedroom. It contained $600 she had saved for a car repair.
She suspected her nephew, Robert Sands, in his 30s, of Livermore Falls. Police found Hiscock, who had apparently chauffeured Sands in a white pickup truck, after talking to Sands.
Hiscock admitted to a federal agent with the Central Maine Violent Crimes Task Force that he and Sands had gone to the woman’s apartment hoping to steal items, court documents said.
He told the agent the gun wasn’t loaded and he never pointed it at her. He said Sands waited in the hallway until the coast was clear. Hiscock claimed there was no money in the purse, according to court documents.
The two men threw the purse out the window of the truck. Police later found it on the side of the road near Lake Auburn. They found the ski mask worn by Sands in an alleyway near the apartment.
Sands denied being at the apartment and told police he had no involvement in the robbery.
Both were charged with robbery. Hiscock also was charged with impersonating a public servant.
He was freed on $1,000 cash bail. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim and to keep away from unlawful drugs and weapons.
He had filed a motion to have the state pay for a private investigator to help prove the charges against him were false. A judge denied that motion.
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