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AUBURN — An Auburn woman charged in a 2014 home invasion in Poland, where the victims were threatened with baseball bats and a hammer and robbed, pleaded guilty Monday to a felony.

, 38, agreed to a two-year sentence with all but the of that time suspended except for the 137 days she has already spent in jail. She will be on probation for two years with conditions that include no contact with her five co-defendants and no use of alcohol or illegal drugs and random searches and testing for both.

Wilson, who was addicted to heroin, successfully completed a substance abuse treatment program at Wellspring in Bangor, her attorney, Allan Lobozzo, told Judge Nancy Carlson in Androscoggin County Superior Court on Monday.

Lobozzo said his client had been prepared to go to trial in the “extremely messy case” on a robbery charge.

According to court documents, one of the victims told authorities that Wilson had called him, seeking a loan. He told her he could lend her money from a Christmas bonus he recently received.

When she arrived at his home, she was followed half a minute later by three men wearing ski masks and armed with baseball bats and a hammer.

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The men with bats began swinging them, striking doors and threatening one of the residents, who gave the men $1,000 in cash.

One of the residents had been with a friend in a back room, where they were threatened by a man with a bat, according to an sworn statement by an Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office deputy.

When one of the residents tried to confront the men, he was struck in the head with a baseball bat. Another man hit him in the eye with a hammer, causing a serious laceration, the man told authorities. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

That victim told authorities he heard Wilson yell, “OK, enough. We have to get out of here.”

She and the three men ran out the door and drove off in a dark-colored SUV, the resident said.

Wilson told authorities that she had abused drugs and was enrolled in the drug court program.

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She said she called one of the residents of the Poland home in hopes of buying heroin from him. She was with two of the co-defendants when a third co-defendant, who drove a dark-colored SUV, and her boyfriend, picked up her and another of her co-defendants and drove them to the victims’ house on Dec. 11, 2014. Wilson said she entered the home to make the purchase, when three of her co-defendants came in behind her and demanded drugs from the two residents.

Wilson said one of her co-defendants was armed with a hammer. Another man wielded a baseball bat. Wilson said she heard a “finger of heroin” hit the floor and picked it up, according to court papers.

She said one of her co-defendants struck one of the residents with a hammer; another man hit him with a baseball bat. She said she screamed for them to leave, and they fled in an SUV and later shared the heroin that Wilson had stolen.

A search warrant for the Mechanic Falls home of one of her co-defendants turned up five hammers, an aluminum baseball bat, marijuana and a baggie of heroin, according to court papers.

Authorities found heroin during searches of two other co-defendants.

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