PARIS — A Norway woman pleaded guilty Thursday in Oxford County Superior Court to selling heroin.

Molly Groves, 21, of 256 Norway Center Road, pleaded guilty to Class A aggravated trafficking of a schedule W drug. The crime was aggravated because the sale took place within 200 feet of Guy E. Rowe Elementary School on Main Street in Norway. Another aggravated trafficking charge and a possession of hypodermic apparatuses charge were dismissed.

According to the District Attorney’s Office, Groves was addicted to heroin and had taken to selling it to pay for her addiction.

Groves was charged in August 2009, after an investigation by the Norway Police Department. According to a report by Norway police officer Theron Bickford, a confidential informant told him Groves was making daily trips to Haverhill, Mass., and returning with heroin, which she was selling locally.

Using confidential informants, police conducted two separate controlled drug purchases.

Groves was offered a plea deal where if she completes drug treatment, she will be allowed to plead to two misdemeanor charges. Each charge would carry a 364-day sentence with all of it suspended, as well as two years of probation with conditions that she not use illegal drugs.

If Groves fails to complete the treatment, she faces an eight-year sentence with four years suspended.

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