'Joy Riding' Man Was Actually Escapee from Alabama, Deputies Say

Douglas County deputies arrested an escaped convict from Alabama during a recent traffic stop on Interstate 20.

The sheriff’s office said in a news release chronicling a recent string of interstate arrests made by the agency’s Felony Interception Narcotics Detection Unit that Raymond Coty Baker and an accomplice were arrested Aug. 19 after the Buick he was driving was stopped for following too closely around 4:30 p.m.

The sheriff’s office said Baker was an escapee from the Alabama Department of Corrections’ Childersburg Work release center.

Baker told the deputy they were just out “joy riding” and that he had no identification on him, but during the interview with the deputy he gave two different false names and dates of birth, the sheriff’s office said in the news release.

The accomplice, Jaimmie Anne Cook of Birmingham, gave a third name for the man.

“Upon further investigation, it was revealed the male subject was actually identified as Raymond Coty Baker,” the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies believe Cook took a relative’s car without permission to pick up Baker on the side of the road in Alabama and then drove into Georgia.

Baker is awaiting extradition to Alabama, and Cook was charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon.