A Thomaston resident was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent last summer by driving a vehicle at the agent.
Olivia Wilkins, 24, pleaded guilty to the assault charge in March 2026.
Wilkins came upon a single-vehicle crash involving a box truck in the town of Washington on Aug. 27, 2025. U.S. Border Patrol responded to the crash along with the Maine State Police and Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
The truck’s four occupants were suspected of being in the United States illegally, according to past reporting.
Wilkins voiced concerns about Border Patrol’s presence in the area, and as the agent took an individual into custody and began moving them to a nearby Border Patrol vehicle, Wilkins quickly accelerated a vehicle toward the agent, according to court records.
Wilkins stopped the vehicle without striking anyone, drove away, fleeing the scene before being arrested a short distance away.
Chief U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker told Wilkins during the sentencing that a law enforcement officer on the scene had drawn his weapon and that Wilkins was lucky that the officer hadn’t fired his weapon in response.