A Thomaston resident has pleaded guilty to assaulting a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent.

Court documents indicate Olivia Wilkins, 24, nearly struck a Border Patrol agent with her vehicle in August as the agent was making an arrest in Washington.

A grand jury indicted Wilkins on an assault charge in October, according to court records, and she pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

According to the prosecution, Wilkins came upon the scene of a one-vehicle crash that a Border Patrol agent was responding to on Aug. 25, 2025.

Border Patrol was assisting Maine State Police and the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in the response, according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security days after the Aug. 25 incident.

Wilkins spoke with the agent while in her vehicle and voiced concern about the agent’s presence, according to the court document. Wilkins was permitted to observe the agent from a distance, the document states.

The agent took someone into custody for “being unlawfully present in the United States,” according to the court document, and began moving them to a Border Patrol vehicle.

Wilkins accelerated toward the agent, and the agent pulled the person they took into custody out of the way, according to the court document. Wilkins stopped short of striking them before fleeing, the document states. She was later arrested nearby.

Knox County deputies pursued Wilkins and arrested her, DHS said in a news release in August.

Wilkins faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. A judge will determine the sentence once an investigative report is completed by the U.S. Probation Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

That August news release from DHS says Border Patrol arrested two people following the rollover crash involving a commercial vehicle.