Keyon Harrold / Instagram Miya Ponsetto / Instagram
January 3, 2021, 9:27 am
All eyes are on Miya Ponsetto after the 22-year-old was revealed to be the infamous “SoHo Karen” sought by the NYPD in relation to an incident of racial profiling in New York over Christmas. And that means digging up all her old social media.
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Thanks to a deep dive by the Daily Dot, Ponsetto’s AskFM account was unearthed, where at some point in the distant past she admitted she is “easily annoyed” and has anger issues.
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The profile also revealed that she identifies as “Italian, Puerto Rican, Greek, and Vietnamese,” and believes she is the “least judgmental person probably ever.”
A video that went viral shortly after Christmas showed a woman later identified as Ponsetto falsely accusing the 14-year-old son of jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold, who is Black, of stealing her iPhone at the Arlo Hotel.
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The footage shows her becoming increasingly frantic and insisting the hotel manager forcibly remove the teenager’s phone case to “prove” that he was holding her iPhone, and security footage later shared by the hotel shows her tackling the teen in an apparent attempt to get the phone. Ponsetto’s iPhone was later recovered by an Uber driver.
The 22-year-old’s identity was in question for days as both police and internet sleuths apparently attempted to determine who she was. She gave an anonymous interview to CNN last Tuesday, in which she insisted what was shown isn’t “who she is,” but has otherwise remained silent about the incident. Her identity was made public on Thursday.
There isn’t much else in the way of social media from Ponsetto, though it’s entirely possible her accounts were taken down in the time between the video going viral and her identity being revealed. An old, nearly empty Twitter account, a clearly outdated ExploreTalent profile, and an Etsy page round out the list of what’s been dug up so far.
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But according to TMZ, she and her mother were arrested last February for causing a disturbance at a Beverly Hills hotel. They were allegedly drunk and refused to leave the premises when asked, resulting in a call to police. Her mother, Nicole, was arrested for public intoxication as well as allegedly pushing and kicking one of the officers, while Miya was arrested for public intoxication.
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After their first court date for that offense, the younger Ponsetto was arrested for drunk driving and sentenced to three years probation.
Her record may very well be expanding, as Harrold’s lawyer Ben Crump continues to press the Manhattan District Attorney to bring charges against her for assaulting Harrold and his son.
*First Published: January 3, 2021, 9:27 am
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