ATLANTA (AP) – The Florida murder suspect whose 56-hour crane standoff led to a traffic-clogging spectacle in Atlanta last week was denied bail Monday pending an extradition hearing.

A brief hearing was held Monday at the Fulton County Jail for Carl Edward Roland, who will appear Tuesday in Superior Court for a hearing to discuss his return to Pinellas County, Fla., where he is charged with strangling his ex-girlfriend.

A spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, Sgt. Nikita Hightower, did not know if Roland had an attorney yet.

Roland, 41, climbed onto a construction crane above the city’s Buckhead neighborhood Wednesday. Atlanta police subdued him with a stun gun early Saturday as he crawled toward an officer for a cup of water. He was lowered to the ground from the 350-foot crane and taken to a hospital, where he stayed for nearly two days.

Suspect kept leopards in cellar

DIX HILLS, N.Y. (AP) – Police arrested a Dix Hills man who allegedly beat his wife and chained her to a wall and kept two leopards in his basement.

The 50-pound leopards were kept in a basement room and allowed to roam the house, police said. They came in contact with the couple’s four young children, ages 2, 4, 7 and 8, Suffolk County police said.

Anthony Barone, 34, was arrested Sunday and was charged with reckless endangerment for allegedly letting the leopards near his family. The leopards were taken by the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Police also said Barone punched and kicked his wife, Anastasia Barone, on May 20, breaking her nose. He then allegedly chained her to a downstairs wall for several hours before freeing her.

9-year-old held in killing of girl

NEW YORK (AP) – A 9-year-old girl was being questioned Monday in the stabbing and killing of another young girl in Brooklyn, police said.

Details of the incident in the East New York section were sketchy.

Police officers responding to a 911 call Monday afternoon discovered that the victim, Queen Washington, 11, had been stabbed in the chest inside an apartment.

The 9-year-old, whose name was not released, was taken into custody and held at the 75th Precinct stationhouse, a police spokeswoman said.

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