AUBURN — A Lewiston woman who threw Molotov cocktails at cars before leading police on two high-speed chases pleaded guilty Thursday to related felony charges.

Heather Kullson, 22, was sentenced to five years in jail with all but three months of that time suspended on two charges of criminal use of explosives.

For two charges of eluding an officer, she was sentenced to five years in prison with all of that time suspended. She will be on probation for four years following her time in jail.

Conditions of her probation include mental health counseling and no use or possession of alcohol and illegal drugs, and random searches and testing. She’ll be under a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.

She is barred from having contact with her ex-boyfriend, whose foot she ran over while collecting her things from an apartment, according to police.

Kullson, who had no prior criminal record, had suffered a mental breakdown, which helped to explain her behavior on that night in November 2012, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Matulis said.

Psychologists who examined her by court order said her behavior that night appeared to be an aberration. Since then, she was free on a contract with an independent monitoring service and has “done well,” Matulis said. She has held down a job successfully, according to her employers, he said.

An abusive relationship with her ex-boyfriend had triggered her criminal behavior, she and her attorney, James Howaniec, had told Matulis.

“That had reached a point where that was kind of what led to this event,” Matulis said.

He said the underlying sentence was “significant,” should Kullson not satisfy the term of her probation.

“We wanted to supervise her in the community, rather than putting her in for a significant period of prison time,” he said.

Lewiston police said Kullson was retrieving her belongings at a Walnut Street apartment after she broke up with her boyfriend because she wouldn’t bail him out of jail. She ran over his ankle as he brought some of her things out to her car, police said.

She sped off, but returned, police said. Her ex-boyfriend said she threw a lighted bottle from her car window, drove up the street and back again, and threw another one, according to police.

Lewiston police said they spotted Kullson’s Honda near Howe Street and tried to stop her, but she took off. Police pursued her for several minutes through Lewiston and Auburn, with speeds reaching 100 mph, according to court documents. Police called off the chase because of concerns over public safety.

Police found her car again half an hour later in the area of Birch and Pierce streets in Lewiston. Officers pursued her again, this time involving Lewiston and Auburn police, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department and Maine State Police. She was stopped in Poland about 20 minutes later and arrested.

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