CLEAR LAKE – This convicted Northern Iowa criminal, on probation for a drug charge, was nabbed for felony drunk driving in Clear Lake and awaits trial in January.
Clear Lake police nabbed 27-year-old Chloey Lorraine Baldwin of Clear Lake on October 1, 2025, on a charge of felony third-offense operating while intoxicated. She was taken to the Cerro Gordo county jail that evening and booked in at 6:12 PM. Records show she was released on her own recognizance that very day. She was then appointed a public defender and at a November 3 hearing, entered a plea of not guilty. A January 6 jury trial was then scheduled.
Records show Baldwin (pictured at top) is a convicted felon out of Dickinson county for felony theft, sentenced in 2022 to a suspended prison sentence, a suspended fine, probation, and a $404.04 bill owed to Iowa courts. Baldwin just last year beat a felony drug charge after the Spirit Lake police department arrested her on August 20, 2024. However, a judge allowed her to plead all the way down to serious misdemeanor first-offense illegal drug possession. At the December 9, 2024 sentencing, she was placed on probation by this woman judge, Shawna Dittsworth, and avoided jail. She was ordered to pay Iowa courts $1,131.86, but has only made a passing attempt to pay the total and is now in collections. Dittsworth allowed the plea despite Baldwin being nabbed by the Iowa State Patrol in 2021 and charged with second-offense illegal drug possession and later pleading guilty to that charge. That crime cost Baldwin 4 days in jail, 2 years of probation and a bill of $2,355.17 owed to Iowa courts – which is still not fully paid off, records show.
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It takes progress not perfection to straighten out what I put myself through. I appreciate your well intended wishes sir.
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Hi, my name is Chloey Baldwin. I am the “convicted felon pictured above”. I have plenty of information your reporter could use to make this article more factual. I’ll give you one example of wrong information provided. I sat 3 months in jail for my theft felony. Not 4 days, that false information could give other ACTIVE criminals the wrong idea of the consequences to such a terrible crime.
Appreciate you reaching out with new details. Best of luck in getting yourself straightened out 🙂