{"id":1433127,"date":"2022-04-12T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433127"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:00:57","slug":"she-falsely-accused-a-teen-of-stealing-her-phone-she-just-pleaded-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-falsely-accused-a-teen-of-stealing-her-phone-she-just-pleaded-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"She Falsely Accused A Teen Of Stealing Her Phone. She Just Pleaded Guilty."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshe-falsely-accused-a-teen-of-stealing-her-phone-she-just-pleaded-guilty%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-12.22.13-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A woman who accosted a black teenager and his father in a New York City hotel lobby in late 2020, accusing the teen of stealing her iPhone, pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in the second degree as a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>Miya Ponsetto, 23, has agreed to a plea deal that will require her to \u201cfollow the probation terms for a separate case in California, attend counseling and avoid further criminal incidents,\u201d CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/11\/us\/miya-ponsetto-hate-crime-guilty-plea\/index.html?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=news_tab\">reported<\/a>. If she breaks the terms of her plea deal, Ponsetto could face up to four years in prison. If she follows them, she can plead the felony charge down to a misdemeanor for aggravated harassment in the second degree.<\/p>\n<p>Paul D\u2019Emilia, Ponsetto\u2019s attorney, said his client appreciated the plea deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appreciative of the District Attorney\u2019s thoughtful and empathetic approach to finding an acceptable conclusion, especially in light of the unreasonable pressure brought to bear by many voices not familiar with the more granular details of what occurred that evening,\u201d D\u2019Emilia said. \u201cMs. Ponsetto looks forward to her eventual final plea to the harassment charge, a plea that we feel more realistically reflects her actions that night at the Arlo Hotel. It is Ms. Ponsetto\u2019s wish that Keyon Harrold accepts her regrets and apology for her behavior that evening, and that all involved can move forward with added insight and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Alvin Bragg condemned Ponsetto\u2019s actions while saying the plea deal was \u201cappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Black man, I have personally experienced racial profiling countless times in my life and I sympathize with the young man victimized in this incident,\u201d Bragg said, according to CNN. \u201cThis plea ensures appropriate accountability for Ms. Ponsetto by addressing underlying causes for her behavior and ensuring this conduct does not reoccur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-woman-accuses-black-teen-of-stealing-her-iphone-she-left-it-in-an-uber\">reported<\/a>, Ponsetto was in the lobby of the Arlo Soho Hotel and unable to find her phone when Grammy-award winning trumpet player Keyon Harrold and his 14-year-old son came down from their room for breakfast. Harrold captured several minutes of the incident on his own phone before posting it to his Instagram account. The woman can be seen frantically claiming to the hotel manager that Harrold\u2019s 14-year-old son stole her phone. The teenager told the woman that it was his phone and his father stepped up to say, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to explain nothing to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman continued to claim that the teen had stolen her phone and demanded that he prove it was his phone. Harrold responded: \u201cAre you kidding me? You feel like there\u2019s only one iPhone in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harrold wrote on Instagram that the woman scratched him and tackled and grabbed his son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow watch as the manager advocates for the lady who is not even a hotel guest, insisting and attempting to use his managerial authority to force my son to show his phone to this random lady. He actually empowered her!!! He didn\u2019t even consider the fact we were actually the guests!\u201d Harrold wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Harrold added that just a few minutes after the incident, an Uber driver brought the woman\u2019s phone into the hotel after she apparently left it in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo apology from her after this traumatic situation to my son, not me. No apologies from the establishment,\u201d Harrold wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ponsetto\u2019s attorney at the time, Sharon Ghatan, said her client \u201csuffers from a lot of anxiety attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was alone \u2026 22 years old in a city she doesn\u2019t know, absolutely nobody there and her phone had everything about it,\u201d Ghatan added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghatan was representing Ponsetto in an unrelated case. After the video of Ponsetto accosting the Harrolds went viral, media outlets dug into her past to find several alcohol-related arrests and charges from last year.<\/p>\n<p>As for the hotel incident regarding the Harrolds, Ghatan said her client \u201clost her mind for a hot minute\u201d and that she \u201cis sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, these poor Harrolds had to deal with the aftermath,\u201d Ghatan told NBC.<\/p>\n<p>Ponsetto previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/miya-ponsetto-went-script-interview-claims-she-can-t-be-n1253800\">told<\/a> CBS\u2019s Gayle King in January 2021 that she couldn\u2019t be racist because she\u2019s Puerto Rican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t racial profiling whatsoever. I\u2019m Puerto Rican,\u201d Ponsetto said. \u201cI\u2019m, like, a woman of color. I\u2019m Italian, Greek, Puerto Rican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King pressed Ponsetto, asking whether the young woman thought she couldn\u2019t be racist because she was a woman of color. Ponsetto responded, \u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I would disagree with that,\u201d King said. \u201cPeople of color can be racist too. Do you believe that you should pay a price for this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel that my accusation is a crime,\u201d Ponsetto replied.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who accosted a black teenager and his father in a New York City hotel lobby in late 2020, accusing the teen of stealing her iPhone, pleaded guilty to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}