Lawyer charged with stalking ex-girlfriend

A Miami Beach lawyer was arrested Tuesday and charged with harassing his ex-girlfriend for seven months, trying to hack into her social media and store service accounts, using her e-mail address and phone apps to set up dinner and massage reservations in her name, and even convincing Florida Power & Light Co. to shut off her electricity, Miami prosecutors said.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said Grant Griffith Sarbinoff put a GPS tracker on his ex-girlfriend’s car and used the ride-sharing service Uber to pay visits to her neighborhood.

In all, the harassment allegations run 28 pages.

Sarbinoff, 37, became an attorney in 2010 and worked briefly in downtown Fort Lauderdale.

The Broward Clerk’s web site lists him as counsel in nine cases and as a defendant in one — a civil stalking case filed in 2014.

A Hollywood woman resolved her case against Sarbinoff on March 16, 2015, with a judgment of protection against stalking violence.

Attempts to locate the woman who filed that case were unsuccessful Tuesday.

Eight months after the Broward case was resolved, Sarbinoff met a fellow Miami lawyer on the social media dating app Tinder, according to an arrest warrant released Tuesday.

The couple dated until the end of September, and the harassment began immediately, according to the warrant.

Among the allegations: Hostile messages were sent daily from Sarbinoff’s email account.

Numerous attempts were made to hack into the victim’s social media and internet services accounts, including the Hulu streaming video service, Instagram, and the victim’s account at Publix.