At his sentencing Monday, Scott Thomas Baker, a former Muskogee All-State football player and manager of Healthplex in Muskogee, admitted he knew that selling drugs was illegal, but he did it anyway.

Baker was sentenced to five, 10-year sentences with the first five years in prison. The second five years on each case is suspended. The sentences run concurrently on the charges of distribution of controlled, dangerous drugs.

“I sold illegal substances for at least 10 years — that’s correct,” he told Muskogee County First Assistant District Attorney Jeff Sheridan on cross examination. “If I could go back and change what I did , I would. I shouldn’t have been doing what I was doing.”

Baker, 35, of Fort Gibson pleaded guilty earlier and has 10 days to change his guilty plea.

On four other charges, ranging from possession of controlled, dangerous drugs (including cocaine and Oxycodone) and one misdemeanor, he received suspended sentences and fines.

Baker testified Monday he sold a lot of testosterone in his business.

“I knew it was against federal law ... I should not have sold anybody any testosterone,” he told the court.

Relatives were devastated at the Monday sentencing by District Judge Thomas Alford.

Alford said he appreciated Baker’s apology to his family and the community.

“But I’m convinced Mr. Baker knew he was doing something illegal — and a whole lot of it,” Alford said as he announced the sentence.

Baker’s wife, Sarah, cried and sobbed. The couple has two young daughters. She had pleaded with Alford to give her husband a suspended sentence.

Scott Baker took the stand and told the judge although he was a professional body builder after college and has a master’s degree in exercise physiology, that since his experience with steroids that he’s completely out of that body building business.

“I’ve totally disassociated myself from the industry,” he testified.

He’s the general manager for a construction company owned by his parents and works mostly in and around Tahlequah.

A probation officer for 16 years who prepared Baker’s pre-sentence report, Julie Walker, testified Baker needed to go to prison.

She told of a felony arrest in Texas in 1996 after Baker was caught bringing back controlled substances from Mexico. Baker later testified he thought it was a misdemeanor that had been expunged.

Walker said Baker didn’t appear to be a good candidate for community supervision — that he lacked responsibility.

She said he told her he works for his mother’s construction corporation but doesn’t draw a salary.

Baker later testified his mother gives him a home to live in, a credit card ... “that’s pretty much it — takes care of room and board and housing for me and my wife and two daughters.”

Walker said she asked him for documentation as far as any taxes he paid and that he could not provide that.

The defendant’s mother, teacher Bonnie Baker, testified her son was one of the most disciplined individuals she knew — an overachiever in sports and academics. She said he graduated 15th his class at Muskogee High School. In addition to being chosen as an All-Stater, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Football Hall of Fame.

Officials said the sentence will ensure that Baker will spend between 16 and 18 months in prison, if he stays on good behavior.

Reach Donna Hales at 684-2923 or dhales@muskogeephoenix.com.