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Florida lawyer accused of stalking one other legal professional, texting rap songs with threatening lyrics

By Debra Cassens Weiss

February 10, 2025, 11:45 am CST

A lawyer in Coral Gables, Florida, was charged with aggravating stalking Thursday for allegedly harassing one other legal professional who was so involved that he despatched his workers residence from his regulation workplace.

Florida lawyer Carlos L. Santi, 43, was arrested whereas holding pizza packing containers carrying the title of the lawyer he allegedly focused and the title of the lawyer’s spouse, report Regulation.com, the Miami Herald and WPLG.

Santi is a lawyer with the Property & Casualty Regulation Group in Florida. The alleged sufferer, who can also be a Coral Gables legal professional, contacted police Feb. 4 concerning the alleged harassment.

The sufferer informed police that Santi had proven up uninvited to his regulation workplace, had handed by his home whereas texting that he was there, had texted rap songs with threatening lyrics, and had talked about the focused legal professional’s kids, in keeping with allegations in an arrest report and an affidavit cited by the information articles.

Video surveillance confirmed Santi strolling previous the opposite lawyer’s residence whereas gazing his residence, in keeping with the police report.

On Friday, Decide Mindy S. Glazer of the Miami-Dade circuit court docket issued a stay-away order to guard the allegedly focused legal professional and his household, the articles reported.

Santi was just lately sanctioned in a civil case earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Nicholas P. Mizell of the Center District of Florida. Mizell chastised Santi in a rental affiliation case for failing to file a disclosure and lead counsel designation, regardless of reminders.

In a Jan. 7 order, Mizell referred Santi to the court docket’s grievance committee to offer Santi counseling on enhancing his practices or to suggest applicable remedial motion. The decide additionally ordered Santi to pay $200 to the Southwest Florida Federal Court docket Bar Affiliation for use in “ongoing efforts to raise the observe of regulation.”

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