Miya Ponsetto was charged with attempted robbery, grand larceny, acting in a manner injurious to a child and two counts of attempted assault, according to city police. NYPD detectives flew to California on Thursday with a warrant for the Piru resident's arrest.
Ponsetto's confrontation with 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. on Dec. 26 at Manhattan's Arlo Hotel was recorded and posted online by his father, jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold. The video shows an agitated woman demanding the teenager's phone, claiming he stole it. The phone was found soon afterward in an Uber.
Security video released by city police shows Ponsetto frantically grabbing at the teenager as he tried to get away from her through the hotel's front door.
The charges follow more than a week of intense media coverage of the hotel lobby encounter and demands by the teen's family and activists that she face criminal charges.
