BAKER CITY — The 18-year-old Baker City man who was driving the vehicle that crashed early on Dec. 23 in west Baker City, injuring all six passengers, told a police officer he had taken cocaine and consumed alcohol before the crash, according to a police report.

Izek Matthew Cleveland was taken to the Baker County Jail on $60,000 bail. He is charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants, five counts of second-degree assault, and six counts of recklessly endangering another person.

Cleveland was released from the jail on Christmas Day after posting 10% of the bail, $6,000.

In a probable cause affidavit, Baker City police officer Mason Powell wrote that Cleveland “admitted to using cocaine because he thought it would help sober him up for driving.”

Powell wrote that Cleveland’s blood alcohol level was 0.12%, above Oregon’s legal limit of 0.08.

Cleveland was scheduled to be in court for a preliminary probable cause hearing on Dec. 30 at 1:15 p.m. William Thomson of Elkhorn Public Defenders in Baker City was appointed to represent him.

Second-degree assault is a Measure 11 offense in Oregon, which carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years and 10 months on conviction.

Information about the condition of the passengers was not available. Baker County District Attorney Greg Baxter said all six passengers are either 18 or 19 years old. The victims listed in the charging document are Brooklyn Jaca, Timothy Sage Darlington, Danaeh Darnell, Kaden Garvin, Sydnee Pierce and Taylor Dalton.

Powell wrote in the probable cause affidavit that at least three of the passengers suffered serious injuries. Two were taken by ambulance to Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in Boise.

Baker City police are still investigating the crash, which happened on 17th Street near Grace Street, in the southwest corner of the city near the base of the hill leading to the city’s drinking water reservoirs, Baker City Police Chief Ty Duby said. The accident was reported at 1:28 a.m. on Dec. 23, according to the Baker County Dispatch Center.

In a press release Dec. 23, Duby said Baker City police, who were assisted by the Oregon State Police and the district attorney’s office in investigating the crash, believe Cleveland was driving south on 17th Street in a 2008 Ford Escape.

Cleveland failed to make a turn and hit a large tree head on, according to the release. The tree is on the east side of 17th Street just south of its intersection with Grace Street.

Powell wrote in his affidavit that he briefly interviewed one of the passengers, who told him that Cleveland “was intentionally swerving the vehicle and driving erratically.”

Baxter said he has a personal conflict of interest in the case because he has had several conversations previously with Cleveland with a goal of helping him. As a result, Baxter said he didn’t think it was appropriate for him, or one of his two deputies, to prosecute the case. Instead, a prosecutor from the Oregon Department of Justice will handle the case, Baxter said.