Karl Etters

Democrat staff writer

A onetime prominent Tallahassee investment adviser, who spent time in federal prison, was arrested in Panama City Beach over the weekend after police say he forced his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son to eat feces as punishment during toilet training.

Don Reinhard, 56, a former chairman of the Seminole Booster board, faces charges of aggravated child abuse and battery of a child by throwing feces. He was arrested Friday without incident by PCBPD.

Investigators received a report that Reinhard was forcing the child to eat his own feces as punishment during toilet training.

PCBPD was able to develop other evidence that corroborated the report, according to a news release. The case is still being investigated, said PCBPD Lt. Eusebio Talamantez.

In October 2009, Reinhard, who was then a prominent Tallahassee investment adviser, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to several fraud and money laundering related charges.

He was charged after a two-year investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Trustee Program that found he falsified tax returns and concealed assets in bankruptcy filings.

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