The mother of 18-year-old robbery suspect Megan Reeves of Windham said she thinks imprisonment will keep her daughter out of trouble while she awaits trial.

“This is a young woman who has some issues, some very serious issues,” said Michelle Roberge of Windham. “She is safer where she is right now.”

Reeves was arrested at 2 a.m. on Oct. 31 in the Shaw’s Supermarket parking lot in North Windham for an attempted robbery at a Gray convenience store earlier in the evening. With her was her boyfriend Christopher Poulack, 29, also of Windham, who was also arrested. Police said Poulack, who was in possession of a firearm, drove the getaway car for Reeves.

This summer Reeves was the traveling companion of Michael Woodbury during a crime spree in the south. She fled from him weeks before he committed a triple murder in Conway, New Hampshire.

Roberge said her daughter met Poulack through his sister, and that he had been close friends with Woodbury in the mid-1990s.

Roberge said she paid a bail bondsman $9,750 and put up $5,000 collateral to get her daughter out of a Glynn County, Ga. detention center on Sept. 19. Reeves had told police that she and Woodbury robbed and torched a home and she was being held as an arson suspect. But has not yet been charged with the crime. Her lawyer told her they may have to wait four to seven years for a trial because of the high volume of crime in the area.

Roberge said her daughter’s arrest in Maine will not affect her release from the Glynn County Detention Center.

“The only conditions the judge gave her is that she not be in Glynn County unless it’s for the case,” she said.

Reeves’ Maine bail price was set at $100,000 cash or $250,000 surety. Police believe she committed a number of other crimes in addition to the attempted robbery in Gray.

Reeves said in a televised interview that she got an adrenaline rush out of committing crimes and was looking for thrills.

“Megan is not a well-worded person,” said Roberge. She said someone needs to watch the full hour of the interview to understand the context of her comments and to get a more accurate picture of what has motivated her to commit crimes.

“Regardless, she’s still my daughter,” she said.