Jury selection began this morning in the first-degree murder trial of Carl Roland, a sometime computer salesman who gained notoriety for perching himself atop a crane in Atlanta while fleeing Pinellas authorities. ...more

February 10, 2009

TAMPA – A man with a gun who barricaded himself in a car outside a 24-hour Laundromat has been taken into custody, Tampa police said. ...more

July 1, 2008

A mental competency hearing has been set for Carl Roland, a murder suspect who held authorities at bay for 56 hours two years ago from a perch on a construction crane in Atlanta. ...more

January 19, 2008

CLEARWATER - A mental competency hearing has been set for Carl Roland, a murder suspect who held authorities at bay for 56 hours two years ago from a perch on a construction crane in Atlanta. ...more

January 18, 2008

The man accused of taking hostages at a campaign office of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton watched impassively during his video arraignment Monday as he was portrayed alternately as a sick man desperately seeking psychiatric help and a manipulative longtime criminal. ...more

December 4, 2007