No Bail For B-Ball Murder Suspect

The former roommate of missing Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy was ordered held without bond on murder charges Tuesday, pending an extradition hearing next month.

Carlton Dotson was arrested late Monday in Chestertown, Md., on a warrant issued by police in Waco, Texas, where Dennehy has been missing since mid-June.

At a hearing Tuesday morning, he refused to waive extradition back to Texas and was ordered held until a hearing on the matter. He will be held at the Kent County detention center.

Dennehy's Chevrolet Tahoe was found June 25 in a strip mall parking lot in Virginia Beach, Va.

According to an earlier search warrant affidavit, an unidentified informant reported to Delaware authorities that Dotson told a cousin he shot Dennehy as the two argued while shooting 9mm guns in the Waco area.

CBS News Correspondent Melissa McDermott reports Dotson called officers Sunday from a grocery store in Chestertown, about 55 miles from his hometown of Hurlock, and said he needed help.

Chestertown Police Chief Walter Coryell told the CBS News Early Show that the help Dotson required "would best be described as psychological help — counseling." He claimed to be hearing voices.

"He did not elaborate on what those voices were saying to him," the chief said. Dotson was "open, friendly and relaxed" with the police, Coryell said. "Since I've been in contact with him, I've had no reason to doubt his state of mind or his mental condition."

Chestertown Police took Dotson to a hospital, where he called the FBI on his own accord. The police chief said Dotson stayed overnight at a the hospital, then left early Monday afternoon with FBI agents.

"They interviewed him and during the course of that interview evidence was developed which led to the obtaining of the arrest warrant by officials in Waco," Coryell said.

After the warrant was issued, two officers escorted Dotson, in handcuffs, into the police station about 9:20 p.m. He emerged about 15 minutes later with Coryell, another officer and an FBI agent. Dotson was fingerprinted and processed at the police department, Coryell said.

Contradicting some reports, Dotson told reporters as he left the courthouse that he hadn't confessed to anything, CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan reports.

Shortly after his arrest, Dotson had referred all questions to his lawyer.

Dotson's attorney, Grady Irvin Jr., said in a telephone interview that he had last spoken with his client over the weekend. He would not say what they discussed.

"It is most unfortunate that police have come to the conclusion that there is a death," Irvin said. "I am uncertain as to how they came to that conclusion, that Patrick Dennehy is now dead."

Irvin said he did not know what Dotson told authorities.

"I don't know if the arrest warrant is based on statements he (Dotson) made or information gathered through law enforcement agencies and their investigations," he said. "I'm sure that when I read the warrant, I am 100 percent certain that there will be information not previously available to my office.

Last Thursday, Dotson voluntarily went to the Dorchester County sheriff's office near Hurlock to make a statement about Dennehy's disappearance. He was never in custody and was not arrested, leaving the office with his high school basketball coach.

Waco police declined to discuss what Dotson told authorities last week, saying only that it did not change the course of their investigation.

Authorities said Friday they were trying to determine if a 9mm handgun found Thursday at a Waco apartment complex near Baylor was related to Dennehy's disappearance.

Some of Dennehy's friends say he told them that he and former teammate Dotson were being threatened and that the pair obtained guns, and Dennehy's family claimed the 6-foot-10, 230-pound forward told coaches he feared for his life.

Dotson lost his basketball scholarship this spring and was not expected to play at Baylor next season.