The California woman caught on video wrongly accusing a Black teen of stealing her iPhone at a SoHo hotel was ordered freed on supervised release Saturday on charges of attempted robbery and assault. The court hearing capped a day of proceedings before police, lawyers and a Manhattan Criminal Court judge […]
Charges
NEW YORK — A California woman seen on video tackling a Black teenager whom she falsely accused of stealing her phone at a Manhattan hotel agreed Friday to be extradited to New York after she was jailed in Ventura County. Miya Ponsetto, 22, appeared in court Friday via video in […]
More than 100 protesters — some wearing all black and carrying pistols — marched up to the approximately 20 people who had gathered Thursday evening awaiting instructions from the Oath Keepers, a heavily armed civilian group that has guarded private businesses during racial justice demonstrations this year. The man leading […]
A man in Ohio who was convicted of collecting boys’ urine from bathrooms is now facing child pornography charges, police say. Franklin County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received a tip that Alan Patton, 68, had allegedly been using an online search engine to try to find child pornography, […]
Mark Mainz/Getty Images A federal judge denied bail to Jeffrey Epstein’s accused madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of recruiting and grooming underage girls in the financier’s sex-trafficking scheme. On Tuesday afternoon, Maxwell appeared at the arraignment, initial scheduling conference and bail hearing remotely via video conference from the Metropolitan […]