Stalking Charge Against Patrick Carroll Dismissed

Patrick Carroll has one less criminal case to worry about after the Florida state attorney dismissed a felony stalking charge against him in his hometown of Tampa.

Lindsey Truex, the multifamily unionist’s ex-wife, had accused Carroll of violating a 15-day temporary restraining order that a Hillsborough County family court judge approved June 26, according to court records. Last month, Carroll was briefly jailed in Lincoln County, Wyoming, after the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for his arrest.

On Nov. 1, Brian Haas, the state’s attorney for Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties, dropped the aggravated stalking charge after finding that Carroll’s alleged phone calls to Truex this summer occurred after the retraining order expired July 12, according to court records. Haas took over the case from Hillsborough County State’s Attorney Susan Lopez.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, through executive order, transferred Carroll’s case to Haas at Lopez’s request. The order states that Lopez had a dispute over his “past relationship with the former state’s attorney and Hillsborough County sheriff.”

A spokesman for Carroll declined to comment.

Carroll, a Miami Beach resident who recently founded private investment firm 999 Holdings, sold his Atlanta-based Carroll Organization to RMR Group for $80 million last year. He still has shares in the apartment projects managed by his former company.

The 45-year-old real estate entrepreneur has had multiple run-ins with law enforcement this year. On July 1, Carroll was arrested and charged with carrying a loaded firearm in public and fleeing a police officer in Los Angeles. News footage from a TV station helicopter showed Carroll leading officers on a short chase. He jumped out of the vehicle and tried to escape on foot. Officers caught him after he ran down an embankment, according to Los Angeles Police.

Carroll, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled for a hearing in Los Angeles criminal court on Nov. 22, according to online records.

In March, after an incident in which he filmed himself firing a shotgun from his boat behind his waterfront home in Miami Beach, Carroll was forced by a city court order to submit to a three-day mental health evaluation and temporarily give up his guns. police department.