CROSS COUNTRY 'KAREN'
Miya Ponsetto’s whirlwind Saturday included a crosscountry flight from the West Coast to the Big Apple followed by a police escort — to Criminal Court.
Ponsetto, aka“Soho Karen ,” was brought into the NYPD’s First Precinct in lower Manhattan, clad in knit hat, purple Champion sweatshirt, black pants and a new accessory: a set of leg shackles over her Birkenstocks.
Just hours later, she made her first court appearance on attempted-robbery and attempted-assault charges for allegedly attacking the 14year-old son of jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold at a Manhattan hotel — and was sprung on supervised release.
Ponsetto was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child and grand larceny in the fourth degree.
Ponsetto, 22, did not enter a plea during the proceeding at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn. She was ordered to stay away from Harrold and the teen.
She’s next due in a New York court on March 29.
The encounter with the Harrolds was apparently the second problematic incident Ponsetto had in New York, according to prosecutors.
Earlier the same day, she’s suspected of having damaged an apartment door somewhere in the East Village. No details were given, and the incident, for which she has not been charged, remains under investigation, said Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Sarah Marquez.
She was floating around the Big Apple at the time, said Marquez, who noted Ponsetto was “staying at various locations” around the city.
Ponsetto made headlines when she was caught on video wrongly accusing Keyon Harrold Jr. of stealing her iPhone while trying to wrest it away from him at the Arlo Hotel.
A lawyer for Ponsetto insisted she wasn’t trying to escape the NYPD when he left New York for California after the incident.
“There was no indication that she was going to be placed under arrest,” attorney Paul D’Emilia said.
Ponsetto is now returning home to California, D’Emilia told The Post Saturday night.
While Ponsetto has no criminal convictions under her belt, New York authorities revealed new details of her three run-ins with California authorities last year.
A Feb. 28 incident at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills — during which Ponsetto’s mom,
Nicole, allegedly pushed and kicked a cop after the allegedly drunken mother-daughter duo were asked to leave — involved a third person, according to the New York criminal complaint, which did not identify the third party.
Judge Michael Frishman warned Ponsetto she would have to make good in all her California criminal cases and was expected to be back in New York court bright and early at her next scheduled appearance.
“Apparently you have a lot of cases in California right now. You are gonna have to appear in all those court cases as well. OK?” he asked.
“OK,” she responded.