Hallandale Beach co-op president taken to court after yelling obscenities at female residents

Sources: WPLG & NBC

Several women come forward with tales of mistreatment from co-op president

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The president of a Hallandale Beach co-op building was caught on camera verbally abusing a resident who was walking to the laundry room.

In fact, several women in the building have come forward to say they live in fear every time they walk out of their apartments.

A judge has even issued a restraining order.

The man’s name is Larry Reinfeld. He is the president of Building V in Ro-Len Lake Gardens in Hallandale Beach.

He’s seen in video calling a woman a profane name as she walked by him, asking the woman if he’s blocking the walkway.

The woman in the video is a resident and said that kind of treatment isn’t unusual.

She spoke to Local 10 News Investigative Reporter Jeff Weinsier but asked not to be identified.

“A couple of hours later I was going somewhere and he called me a [expletive] as I was getting in the car,” she said.

She claims it started after one of her contractor’s scratched the paint off a walkway.

Since then, she says, Reinfeld has been barking orders.

“Well you better learn to pick up around here,” she recalls him yelling at her. “And he is always saying I need to make myself useful and pick up.”

She said he yells profanities at her through his door.

“He’s like, ‘[expletive] you, [expletive] you, shut up, shut up,’” she said. “It was so bad I was shaking.”

Dispatch records show she’s called police after Reinfeld allegedly said “are you paranoid enough?” as she walked to her car one day. No police report was written.

The resident even confronted the vice president of Building V about the behavior.

“He said keep your door shut and your blinds closed,” she said. “I’m thinking I didn’t come to Florida to have my door shut and my windows closed. What is this?

“I put in writing to the association. They did nothing.”

Deborah Erlichson also lives in Building V.

“He called me a pot smoking drug addict because of my vocal cords,” Erlichson said. “I have a speech impediment he makes fun of that.”

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