A former Alabama attorney already facing attempted murder charges involving her disabled husband is accused of trying to bring fentanyl into his home while she was free on bond, according to court testimony and local reports.
Sara Baker, a former lawyer from Cullman, allegedly provided caregivers for her husband with an old prescription bottle containing 12.2 grams of purple powder believed to be fentanyl, Alabama.com reported.
Her husband, James “Doyle” Baker, has been homebound and dependent on medical care since suffering a stroke in 2022. During a June 11 visit, Baker, 75, allegedly asked one of his nurses for an empty medication bottle.
She allegedly returned on June 19 carrying a black bag believed to contain the bottle, then instructed the caregiver to put it in a safe located in the garage, according to court records reviewed by WBRC.
The caregiver grew suspicious and contacted police. Investigators later executed a search warrant at the home and found the medication bottle filled with the purple substance.
Cullman police tested the powder, and the substance came back positive for fentanyl, lead investigator Zachary Latham testified in court Friday, according to the outlet.
Baker was found at a residence in Mountain Brook, Alabama, on July 11 and booked into a jail outside Cullman County after a judge refused to allow her release on bond.
“Baker committed a new criminal offense by transporting to, and storing at the victim’s residences, a large amount of the drug, fentanyl,” Circuit Judge Gregory Williams wrote in a Friday order, according to Alabama.com. “The continued release of the defendant poses a risk to public safety and no set of conditions will reasonable assure compliance with the court’s orders regarding the defendant’s bond.”
Baker was out on a $400,000 bond after she was arrested in November for allegedly trying to poison James “Doyle” Baker.
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Officials alleged Baker had put the deadly synthetic opioid in Doyle’s food and drinks over the course of several days between September 4 and September 20, 2025.
She was arrested on Nov. 25 and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, three counts of attempted murder, distribution of a controlled substance, second-degree elder abuse, second-degree domestic violence and four counts of solicitation to commit a controlled substance crime.
Baker, who previously worked in the Cullman County District Attorney’s Office, was released from jail on the nearly half-a-million-dollar bond under conditions that she have no contact with her husband.
Baker would continue to make stops at the house to pay the caregivers and intervene in her husband’s medical care, the outlet reported.
Baker’s husband testified that his wife had followed her bond conditions and had no contact with him after her first arrest.
“I have no idea why we’re here today,” Doyle Baker told the judge during the hearing. “We kept that clean all the way.”
A witness in Baker’s first arrest had been a previous client of the disgraced prosecutor when she was indicted for swallowing fentanyl in an attempt to destroy evidence.
Baker’s social media was filled with posts railing against Republicans, including one repost calling out a GOP election official accused of spiking his granddaughters’ Dairy Queen with cocaine, less than a month before her alleged drug-filled attempts.
