For a long time he was not in custody.
A few hours after Miya Ponsetto, of “Soho Karen,” was taken to the Big Apple in police custody, she made her first court appearance for attempted robbery and attempted to charge assault for allegedly attacking the son of the jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold, 14. The Manhattan Hotel and was released on supervised release.
Ponsetto was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child and a grand theft in the fourth grade.
Ponsetto, 22, did not file a complaint during the proceedings at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn. He was ordered to stay away from Harrold and the teenager.
The next due date will be March 29 in Manhattan Criminal Court.
According to prosecutors, the encounter with the Harrolds was the second problematic incident Ponsetto had in New York.
Earlier in the day, he is suspected of damaging the door of an apartment somewhere in the East Village. No details were given and the incident, for which she has not been charged, is still being investigated, said Manhattan District Deputy Attorney Sarah Marquez.
She was floating around the Big Apple at the time, according to Márquez, who noted that Ponsetto was “staying in various places” in the city.
Ponsetto made headlines when she was caught in a video mistakenly accusing Keyon Harrold Jr. of stealing her iPhone at the Arlo Hotel.
The video posted on Instagram by the teenager’s father shows that Ponsetto allegedly attacked Keyon and tried to snatch his phone.
The woman from Piru, California, had left the phone unintentionally on an Uber. The driver later returned the device.
A Ponsetto lawyer insisted he had not fled New York to escape the NYPD.
“She did not run away from the jurisdiction. There was no indication that she
he was going to be arrested, “said attorney Paul D’Emilia.
Ponsetto is expected to return home to California, his lawyer said.
Ponsetto initially left New York as outrage over the December 26 incident grew. She allegedly tried to knock on the door of her car against an officer when local police finally left her wrapped Thursday in California.
He is “innocent” of the charges, his lawyer told The Post.
“As the case progresses, you will see that the district attorney’s evidence refutes much of his case,” said D’Emilia, who added, “We are baffled and disappointed that at this time of intense tensions in our country that authorities chose to aggravate the situation through unnecessary members flying from the NYPD across the country, to the teeth of COVID, to return a person who would have returned with a simple telephone request. ”
While Ponsetto has no criminal convictions on his hands, New York authorities revealed new details of his three meetings with California authorities last year.
The Feb. 28 incident at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, during which Ponsetto’s mother, Nicole, allegedly pushed and kicked a police officer after he was asked to leave the allegedly drunken mothers’ duo and daughters, which involved a third person, according to the New York criminal. complaint. who did not identify the third.
On May 29, Miya Ponsetto “was clearly intoxicated” when she left a supermarket and got into her car, prompting a worried spectator to call 911 and result in police officers allegedly finding open containers of alcohol and marijuana in his car, according to court documents.
And, as a mother, as a daughter, Miya herself was accused of assaulting an agent on October 10, after she allegedly quarreled with Nicole at a gas station and left in a snort, to later leave the vehicle.
When a police officer tried to arrest her, Miya allegedly fought the police on the ground. She was later charged with drunk driving, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest, and a blood alcohol rating of 0.14, according to court documents.
Judge Michael Frishman warned Ponsetto that he would have to resolve all of his criminal cases in California and was expected to return to New York court during his next appearance.
“Apparently, you have a lot of cases in California right now. You will also have to appear in all these court cases. OK? ”He asked.
“Okay,” she said.
Additional reports by Kathianne Boniello