A district judge doubled the bail yesterday for a Westminster man who was arrested Friday on charges stemming from seven armed robberies in Carroll County.

Floyd L. Strader, 24, has had no fixed address, state police said, although he gave an address in the 1000 block of Gorsuch Road yesterday during a bail review hearing.

Strader is charged on 54 counts, including multiple counts of first-degree assault, armed robbery, robbery, theft, reckless endangerment and related weapons offenses.

At the hearing, Judge Marc G. Rasinsky raised Strader's bail to $100,000 after prosecutor Hope Hancock said the defendant had fled to Pennsylvania, where he was arrested on a traffic charge last week.

Rasinsky ordered Strader, if he posts bail and is released from the Carroll County Detention Center, to enroll in a pretrial supervision program, remain drug-free and submit to drug testing.

In charging documents, Tfc. Alfred Eways of the Westminster barracks said Strader and a man and a woman who have not been charged might be responsible for more than 20 armed robberies in Carroll County.

A man used a large knife to threaten sales clerks in six incidents and had a pistol in his belt on one occasion, Eways said.

Strader, who is on probation in an unrelated theft case, is charged with robbing the High's Store in the 6200 block of Sykesville Road in Eldersburg on Aug. 6 and Sept. 30, 1997; and with robbing Little George's in the 7200 block of Gaither Road in Sykesville on Jan. 3, 1998.

He also is charged with robbing Domino's in the 1300 block of Liberty Road in Eldersburg on Feb. 9, 1998; robbing the 7-Eleven in the 7600 block of Woodbine Road in Woodbine on Jan. 8 and April 3, 1998; and robbing Little George's in the 1700 block of W. Liberty Road in Winfield on April 4.

Pub Date: 3/09/99