January 9, 2021
For Miya Ponsetto, a nationally televised interview was an opportunity to apologize, her lawyer said, for falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone and then tackling him in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel.
Instead, Ponsetto, 22, went off-script. She stormed out of the disastrous interview with “CBS This Morning,” recorded Thursday, only to be arrested hours later by California authorities. By the time the interview aired Friday morning, Ponsetto was facing a charge of attempted robbery in New York, her attorney and police officials said.
Her personal attorney, Sharen H. Ghatan, said Friday that she had become concerned for Ponsetto, who had behaved erratically in the hours before her arrest.
Miya Ponsetto, 22, faces multiple charges including attempted robbery, grand larceny, attempted assault on two counts and endangering the welfare of a child.
NEW YORK (AP) A woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him while being filmed at a New York City hotel apologized but