AUBURN – A man who robbed a woman while posing as a drug agent was sentenced Tuesday to five years in jail with all but nine months suspended.

Jesse Hiscock, 24, of Livermore Falls impersonated a state drug agent during a 2004 robbery of a Lewiston woman, court records said.

He forced his way into her apartment holding a handgun to her head, police said in court documents. He shut her in her bathroom where she sat on the toilet. His accomplice slipped in after the bathroom door was closed and took her pocketbook from her bedroom, police said.

The woman escaped from the bathroom squeezing past Hiscock, and called police from a neighbor’s apartment.

Because the other robber was known to the victim, he wore a ski mask, police said. They later recovered the mask and the woman’s pocketbook.

Hiscock later told police the gun wasn’t loaded.

After serving his sentence, Hiscock will be on probation for two years. He was ordered to pay back the woman for the money she claimed was stolen from her purse. She said she had saved the $600 for car repairs.

Hiscock was charged with one count of class A robbery and a count of impersonating a public servant, a class E misdemeanor.

State prosecutors agree to drop the misdemeanor count and downgraded the robbery charge to class B. He pleaded guilty to that charge in February.

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