Police said Miya Ponsetto was taken into custody by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday evening. Detectives from the NYPD, who had flown to California to assist in the search, were also present for the arrest.
The Ventura County sheriff’s deputies had planned to make a traffic stop based on the New York arrest warrant, but she refused to stop and drove slowly through her Piru, California, neighborhood, officials say.
When she quit, she resisted arrest. ABC News reports that she had to be physically restrained and arrested.
Ponsetto is being held without bail and will be given an extradition hearing. Once she’s done with New York, she could also be charged in California for resisting arrest and possibly for the chase.
Ponsetto was confirmed as the woman in the December 26 video by her lawyer, Sharen Ghatan.
Ghatan said Ponsetto is “emotionally unwell” and remorseful.
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The conflict at the Arlo Hotel in Lower Manhattan between Ponsetto and 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. was recorded by his father, jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold, and posted online.
In his video, an irritated woman is seen demanding that her phone be returned, while a hotel manager tries to resolve the situation.
Security video later released by the NYPD shows the woman frantically chasing the teen as he attempted to exit the hotel’s front door. She’s seen grabbing him from behind before they both fall to the floor. Harrold has said the phone was returned by an Uber driver shortly after.
The altercation drew comparisons to things like that of Amy Cooper, a white woman accused of filing a false report for calling the emergency number and saying she was being threatened by “an African American man” during a dispute in Central Park in New York in May.
Harrold has called on the Manhattan district attorney to charge Ponsetto with assault and battery charges.
Ghatan said she spoke with her client, who lives near Los Angeles, on Thursday and that “ she comes across to me as someone who’s not feeling well. ”
She said Ponsetto “lashed out” because he feared her phone would disappear and that he was not racially motivated.
It “could have been anyone,” she said.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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