She was not in custody for long.
Hours after ‘Soho Karen’ Miya Ponsetto was arrested after the Big Apple in police custody, she made her first court appearance on attempted robbery and assault charges for allegedly raping the 14-year-old son of jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold. a Manhattan hotel – and was shot up after release under supervision.
Ponsetto is also accused of endangering the welfare of a child and large larch in the fourth grade.
Ponsetto, 22, did not plead guilty during the trial at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn. She was ordered to stay away from Harrold and the teenager.
She is due in Manhattan Criminal Court next month on March 29.
According to prosecutors, the encounter with the Harrolds was apparently the second problematic incident Ponsetto had in New York.
Earlier that day, she was suspected of damaging an apartment door somewhere in the East Village. No details were given, and the incident, for which she was not charged, is still under investigation, said Sarah Marquez, assistant district attorney for Manhattan.
According to Marquez, she was hovering around the Big Apple at the time, noting that Ponsetto lived ‘in different places’ in the city.
Ponsetto made national headlines when she was caught on video, showing Keyon Harrold Jr. wrongly accused him of stealing her iPhone in the Arlo Hotel.
The video, which the teenager’s father posted on Instagram, shows Ponsetto allegedly attacking Keyon and trying to snatch his phone.
The woman from Piru, California, actually accidentally left her phone in an Uber. The driver later returned the device.
A Ponsetto lawyer has insisted she did not flee New York to escape the NYPD.
She did not flee the jurisdiction. There was no indication that she
will be arrested, ”said lawyer Paul D’Emilia.
Ponsetto is expected to return to her home in California, her attorney said.
Ponsetto initially left New York as outrage over the December 26 incident escalated. She allegedly tried to slam her car door on an officer when local cops finally stabbed her in California on Thursday.
She is “innocent” of the charges, her lawyer told The Post.
“As the case progresses, you will see that the district attorney’s testimony refutes much of their case,” D’Emilia said, adding: “We are surprised and disappointed that the authorities are at an increased level at this time. in our country. aggravates the situation by unnecessarily making members of the NYPD fly nationwide into the teeth of COVID to bring back someone who would return with a simple telephone request. ”
While Ponsetto has no criminal convictions on hand, authorities in New York last year released new details about her three attacks with California authorities.
The incident on February 28 at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, during which Nicole, a mother of Ponsetto, allegedly pushed and kicked a police officer after the drunk mother and daughter were asked to leave, according to the criminal in New York involves a third person. complaint. who did not identify the third party.
On May 29, Miya Ponsetto went ‘clearly intoxicated’ when she left a supermarket and jumped into her car, prompting a concerned bystander to call 911, and police allegedly found open containers of liquor and marijuana in her car. , according to court documents.
And like a mother, like a daughter, Miya herself is accused of assaulting an officer on October 10, after she allegedly quarreled with Nicole in a gas station and drove away for a while to drop the vehicle off later. .
When a police officer tried to arrest her, Miya allegedly wrestled the police on the ground. She was later charged with drunk driving, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest and according to court documents there is a blood alcohol level of 0.14 on her.
Judge Michael Frishman warned Ponsetto that she would have to compensate in all of her criminal cases in California, and she is expected to be back bright and early in court in New York during her next scheduled appearance.
‘There are a lot of cases in California right now. You will also have to appear in all those court cases. OK? He asks.
“OK,” she said.
Additional reporting by Kathianne Boniello