Young woman who falsely said teen stole her phone in NYC hotel arrested at home in California

Miya Ponsetto, 22, who  falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and then tackled him at the Arlo Hotel in New York City has been arrested Thursday in her home state of California. 

[H/T CBS News]

Ventura County Sheriff's deputies arrested Ponsetto after she was seen driving near her home in Piru, northwest of Los Angeles, Capt. Eric Buschow said. He explained that the young woman  "did not stop for deputies until she reached her residence" two blocks away, then refused to get out of the car.

"She tried to slam the door on one of the deputies and that's when they just reached in and forcibly removed her," he said and added that the sheriff's office would ask county prosecutors to charge her with resisting arrest.

She was jailed in Ventura County but it isn't known exactly what she is being charged with, if not resisting arrest.

The NYPD flew detectives to Californian earlier Thursday with an arrest warrant for Ponsetto. This comes after days of intense media coverage of what occurred at the Arlo Hotel and insistence by the victim's family and others that she face criminal charges.

The father of the 14-year-old victim is jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold who video recorded the incident and put it online. It shows an obviously agitated Ponsetto demanding the teen's phone, claiming he stole it from her. Keyon Harrold is heard telling the woman to leave his son alone.

Ponsetto's lawyer, Sharen Ghatan, told The Associated Press before the arrest that her client is "emotionally unwell" and remorseful for her Dec. 26 conflict with 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. at Manhattan's Arlo Hotel. She confirmed that the woman in the video is Ponsetto.

She explained that Ponsetto "lashed out" because she was worried about her phone disappearing, and that the incident wasn't racially motivated.

It "could have been anyone," she said.

The teenage victim in this incident is Black and Ponsetto is not. Her lawyer, however, emphatically said that the incident was not in any way racially motivated.

NYPD later released security video showing Ponsetto grabbing at the teen as he tried to get away from her at the front door of the hotel. She is seen clutching him from behind as they then tumble to the ground.

As it turns out, Ponsetto's phone was left by her in an Uber and was returned by the driver shortly after the incident, Keyon Harrold said.

Oops.

Because the media and the Left [but I repeat myself] see everything in terms of identity, they compared this incident to that of Amy Cooper, a White woman charged with filing a false 911 report saying she was being threatened by "an African American man" when he verbally confronted her about allowing her dog off the leash in Manhattan's Central Park. Fortunately, the Black man [also named Cooper] recorded the incident which proved Ms. Cooper was fibbing.

Regarding the Ponsetto incident, Ghatan said of her client that"She just wants the family to know that she didn't notice, care or concern herself with the race, creed, nationality or religion of the other party. She thought that was her phone, and she thought someone else had it."

Police have said they're not investigating the case as a bias incident, CBS New York points out.

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