Man arrested for selling cocaine to BPD informant

A Bloomington man was arrested Wednesday for selling cocaine to a confidential informant.
Clayton L. Baker, 25, was arrested on preliminary charges of dealing cocaine and for the schedule of a controlled substance on Wednesday, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from a police report.
Baker was arrested for the class B felonies of selling cocaine in August and September.
The BPD confidential informant was in contact with Baker and had agreed to meet up with him on Oct. 10 in a restaurant on the south side of Bloomington to buy cocaine.
Baker told the informant that he could not give the cocaine to him directly because he had been getting into a lot of trouble recently, according to the report.
The white substance, thought by officials to be cocaine, was sold to the informant by Baker’s girlfriend.
The informant came into contact with Baker again when they spoke and Baker told the informant that he had three morphine tablets for sale. The two met on Wednesday in Ellettsville, where they exchanged money for the tablets, according to the report.
BPD detective Bill Jeffers confirmed Baker was the man who sold the unidentified tablets to the informant.
Baker was arrested by the Ellettsville Police Department and transported to Bloomington.
Baker told officers he was at the restaurant on Oct. 10 when the informant purchased the cocaine. He told others he did not provide the cocaine but was mixed up in the middle of the situation and did not give further explanation.
Baker faces a class B felony charge for the dealing of cocaine and an a class A felony charge for the schedule of a controlled substance.