∞ Fake fed faced fracas for falsehoods
I’m still not clear on why the cops thought they needed to shoot Roland Carnaby, in the end. But you know, I just don’t think he would have fled the Houston PD if he thought he could eventually prove that he was a federal agent.
He couldn’t, because I’d lay dollars to donuts that he wasn’t.
Thing is, even digging up public records on Carnaby can support his contention that he was CIA and did secret work for the government. He played fast and loose with his name. Public records showed that he was using the name Roland Manti Karnabe when he got married to a younger woman named Paula in the 80s. He was still using the “M” when he was at one address in the 90s. He seemed to change his middle name to “Vincent” arbitrarily at some point. One fed who knew Carnaby/Karnabe socially knew him as “Tony.”
Apparently Carnaby’s family was fine with him using an alternate spelling of his last name. He supposedly was the scion of a wealthy clan of Karnabes who had interests in shipping.
But who really knows? What we know now is that Karnabe claimed he was CIA, but neither the CIA nor the FBI have any record of him doing work as a federal agent. He’s been married at least twice — in fact, one set of records from Texas made it look as though Carnaby divorced his current wife (at death), Susan, married Paula in the 80s, then divorced her and married Susan again. That, or he’s been married 3 times.
Whatever. Even with what I’m able to dig up, his trail through public records says he was either a con trying to evade someone or something or — perhaps — what he said he was.
I’m skeptical on the latter, for the moment. The wannabe spy scam or delusion is just too common.