OXFORD — Two Miami University students — the children of prominent Hamilton families — were arrested Saturday night after police say they found a half-kilo of cocaine in one student's BMW.

        Justin Baker, 20, was known as “the man to see” if you wanted to buy drugs on the Miami campus, Butler County sheriff's deputies said Sunday. The arrests capped a three-month investigation.

        Street value of the cocaine was estimated at $50,000, police said.

        Mr. Baker, whose address in Oxford was in the 5400 block of Brown Road, is the son of Hamilton City School Superintendent Janet Baker. He is a Hamilton High School graduate.

        He was charged with felony possession of drugs and permitting drug abuse.

        Also arrested was Stephen Wolf, 20, son of Hamilton lawyer Myron Wolf and a St. Xavier High School graduate. The 1995 BMW, which is registered to Mr. Wolf's mother, was confiscated by the sheriff's department.

        Stephen Wolf's Oxford address was listed as in the 700 block of South Poplar Street. He was charged with felony possession of drugs.

        The felony drug charges carry a three-to-10-year prison sentence upon conviction.

        The pair were arrested at 6:20 p.m Saturday on South Locust Street, said Sgt. Mike Craft, supervisor of the sheriff's office's drug and vice investigative unit.

        Both men were released on bond Saturday night. Calls to their parents' homes Sunday were not returned.

        The sheriff's department began receiving information that Mr. Baker was involved in drug dealing about five months ago, Sgt. Craft said.

        “We received numerous tips that he was a large drug dealer in the Oxford-Miami University area,” Sgt. Craft said. “... He was dealing with a lot of people for us to get all this information.”

        Ms. Baker, Butler County's first female superintendent, was honored this year as Ohio Superintendent of the Year for 2000.

        Deputies also found small amounts of marijuana Saturday in the possession of both suspects, Sgt. Craft said.

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