NEW YORK — A woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and then tackled him at a New York City hotel was arrested Thursday in her home state of California.Miya Ponsetto, 22, . . .
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By ALEX STONE and AARON KATERSKY, ABC News
(NEW YORK) Miya Ponsetto, the woman wanted for allegedly falsely accusing a teenager of stealing her smartphone and physically attacking him inside a New York City hotel, has been arrested in California after fleeing authorities there.
Ponsetto fled the Ventura County Sheriff s Department after it tried to make a traffic stop on the warrant for her arrest out of New York, officials said.
The department said it had to follow her while she refused to stop, driving slowly through her neighborhood in Piru, California.
Once she stopped in front of a home, she put up a fight and resisted arrest, where she had to be physically restrained and arrested by deputies, authorities told ABC News.
NEW YORK — A woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and then tackled him at a New York City hotel was arrested Thursday in her home state of California. Miya Ponsetto, 22, was jailed in Ventura County, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office there said.