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Multifamily investor Patrick Carroll will avoid criminal charges against him after consenting to counseling in a pretrial hearing that occurred last Thursday.
Carroll was facing felony charges for displaying a loaded firearm in public last summer and evading arrest by law enforcement, which was captured in news footage. Carroll pleaded not guilty and said in November that he has bipolar disorder.
Carroll said during the pretrial hearing last week that he would enter a mental health diversion program in exchange for the LA County District Attorney’s Office dropping his case, according to court records, The Real Deal reported.
Over the past couple of years, Carroll has had a number of encounters with law enforcement and has been the subject of multiple civil lawsuits from his former employees. In 2023, he sold his multifamily firm, RMR Group, for $80 million, and now splits his time between Los Angeles and Miami Beach.
Carroll was hit with an aggravated stalking charge in Tampa in November, and the following month, he was arrested in Wyoming for allegedly violating a 15-day restraining order from his ex-wife, Lindsey Truex. It was later determined that Carroll’s calls to Truex were made after the restraining order expired.
The multifamily investor also spent three days under involuntary psychiatric evaluation in March 2024 by order of Miami courts. A few days prior, law enforcement had responded to an emergency call about gunshots coming from his property. At that time, Carroll had also posted on Instagram a video of himself firing what he claimed were blanks from a shotgun while on a boat docked behind his Miami property.
Two of Carroll’s former security guards also sued him in LA County in recent months for wrongful termination, false imprisonment and a hostile work environment, alleging that Carroll held them at gunpoint and called them racial slurs. Carroll has denied the claims.
