Miya Ponsetto (22) Photo: Ventura County Sheriff’s Office / Courtesy
Miya Ponsetto, a young man accused of falsely accusing a black teenager of having stolen his phone and then attacking him in a NYC hotel, returned to the extradited city from California, his home state.
Ponsetto (22) was escorted to New York Police Station # 1 in Lower Manhattan this morning. “He had his leather jacket covering his hands, which were handcuffed s in front,” he described New York Post.
She was charged with attempted robbery, grand theft, attempted assault and acting in a harmful manner for a minor of age, listed Pix 11.
NYPD sent detectives to question her in California, after days of intense media coverage of the fight in the hotel that happened on 26 December, and the demands from the adolescent’s family and politicians that the woman face criminal charges.
According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California, on Thursday deputies attempted to arrest Ponsetto as she was driving near her home in Simi Valley, but she did not stop until she arrived. to his residence, where refused to get out of the car. Once there, officers physically removed her from the vehicle. She was arrested on a “fugitive warrant” and incarcerated without bail.
On Thursday his lawyer said that Ponsetto is “emotionally upset” and regretful of falsely accusing the teenager Keyon Harrold Jr. (14) from stealing his cell phone at Arlo Hotel in SoHo.
The original news was revealed by a video recorded and posted online by the victim’s father, the jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold .
‘Soho Karen’ Miya Ponsetto returns to NYC to face charges https://t.co/gVWf1W1zxP pic.twitter.com/V9MpwHnlhG
– New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) January 9, 2021