A bond revocation hearing for one of five people facing state and federal drug trafficking charges is set for January 26.
The revocation of the $25,000 bond 22-year-old Cameron Mitch Baker, Jr., posted in his federal court case is based on his arrest on new state charges in Baxter County less than a week after posting the federal bond.
Baker of Calico Rock was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center just after 4:30 p.m. on December 27. According to the jail log, the new charges listed against him included being a felon in possession of a firearm, 2nd degree terroristic threatening, 2nd degree criminal mischief and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The U.S. Marshalls Service placed a hold on Baker the same day he turned himself in to the Baxter County Detention Center on new state charges on some of the new state charges.
He was transferred to the Washington County jail in Fayetteville January 14 to await the federal court bond revocation hearing.
THE INCIDENT
Baxter County sheriff’s deputies were called to an address along County Road 249 based on a report that Baker had allegedly taken a cellphone from his grandmother and had done damage to the residence. The 911 caller was listed as Baker’s mother.
She said the family “had fought to get (Baker) home to spend the holidays with his kids.”
On the day of the incident, Baker and three other people were alleged to have left his relative’s house and then returned in a silver Chrysler 300. Witnesses said when he returned Baker had a firearm “in the front of his pants.”
Baker was advised by relatives to get rid of the pistol or probation officers would be notified. According to the incident report, Baker threw the gun in the yard and began screaming and making threats to the witnesses. The gun, described as a Masterpiece Arms 9 mm pistol, was eventually retrieved under a lawnmower and turned over to officers and is being held as evidence at the Baxter County sheriff’s office.
Baker was reported to have kicked down a bedroom door and slammed a small table against the floor damaging it. When deputies checked the bedroom where Baker was staying, a pink and blue smoking pipe with burnt residue on the tip was located.
He was told to leave the property and, according to the Baxter County Sheriff’s office, Baker departed in the same vehicle he had arrived in and with the two males and a female who had accompanied him.
A detention hearing in Baker’s federal case was held in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas December 22. After the hearing, the court set the bond and placed a large number of conditions on the bond that Baker was ordered to follow.
The government objected to the court’s decision to allow Baker to go free on bond.
According to federal court records, he was released into the custody of his grandmother and required to submit to supervision by the U.S. Probation Office, restricted to his grandmother’s resident from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., allowed to travel only in certain area of the Western District of Arkansas and required to wear a location monitoring device.
He was also required to report as soon as possible to pretrial services or supervising officer “every contact with law enforcement personnel, including arrests, questioning or traffic stops.” Baker was also ordered to have no contact with his “co-conspirator,” 21-year-old Kandence Martin. Baker was arrested in Martin’s apartment November 3.
When officers went to Martin’s apartment to serve a search warrant, Martin was reported to have answered the door. Baker was found asleep in a bedroom and taken into custody.
Martin is charged with trafficking a controlled substance, simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms and endangering the welfare of a minor.
Martin is reported to have put up more than $15,000 in cash to obtain Baker’s original bond which had been set at $150,000.
During a search of a safe found in the apartment, police discovered 1.5 pounds of suspected cocaine, two firearms and $11,600 in cash.
Both Baker and Martin are represented by Gray Dellinger and Emily Reed in the state cases. Two Searcy attorneys, Paul and Michael Petty, will be representing Baker in federal court, according to recently filed paperwork.
Baker now has cases open in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division and a petition to revoke probation has been filed in a 2024 Izard County drug-related case.
Group already facing state drug charges now in federal custody
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