MCR Health President, CEO Charged After Domestic Incident: Police

Updated: 12:10 a.m., Thursday

MANATEE COUNTY, FL — Patrick Carnegie, the president and CEO of MCR Health, was arrested in Manatee County Monday on a felony burglary warrant issued in Pinellas County, according to Manatee County Jail records.

The charges against Carnegie stem from an April domestic incident in St. Petersburg, when police were called to the home of “a woman he’d had an on-again, off-again relationship with,” Yolanda Fernandez, a spokesperson for the St. Petersburg Police Department, said in an interview with Patch.

The 51-year-old was released Tuesday after posting a $7,500 bond, jail records said.

The warrant was issued by the state attorney’s office in Pinellas County, Fernandez said, adding that it started as an SPD case. “Initially, a probable cause pick-up was put out on Mr. Carnegie.”

Carnegie showed up at his former partner’s St. Petersburg home around 4 a.m. one morning in April “and pushed his way in,” Fernandez said. “There was some kind of altercation between them. He left and she called the police.”

The burglary charge was filed because he pushed his way into the woman’s house, she added.

“There’s been a little bit of confusion about his arrest” because it started as an SPD case with a warrant written by the state attorney’s office and an arrest in Manatee County, Fernandez said.

As of Wednesday night, SPD still hadn’t received information about his arrest, so she’s uncertain if he turned himself in to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office or picked up by deputies.

He initially appeared before a judge in Manatee County after his arrest, she said. “At some point, he’s coming back to Pinellas (County)” for additional court dates.

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MCR Health, a not-for-profit health care system, operates more than 40 health care centers, 14 pharmacies and three mobile units in Manatee, Sarasota, DeSoto and Pasco counties. Its headquarters is in Palmetto.

Carnegie told MCR Health’s board of directors that the accusations against him aren’t true.

"The Board of Directors of MCR Health, Inc. has been made aware of this serious matter. Mr. Carnegie has assured the Board that the allegations are false and that he intends to aggressively defend himself against the charges. We firmly believe that anyone accused of a crime must be considered innocent until proven guilty. We will have no further comment on this matter until after the legal process has been fully completed," Scott Works, MCR Health’s senior director of marketing, communications and patient experience, said in a statement emailed to Patch.

Patch has reached out to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office for additional information.