Hate crime suspect Tiffany Harris arrested for third time in one week
By Rebecca Rosenberg, Paul Martinka, Reuven Fenton and Laura Italiano
New York Post
January 1, 2020
Tiffany Harris — arrested and released twice in three days after being charged in separate misdemeanor assaults in Brooklyn, including on a trio of Orthodox Jewish women — was arrested a third time on New Year’s Eve.
Harris was picked up by New York City Sheriff’s deputies at a Brownsville, Brooklyn, hotel on an arrest warrant issued earlier Tuesday after she allegedly failed to comply with court-ordered monitoring, officials said.
She had allegedly blown off an appointment with social workers at Brooklyn Justice Initiatives, which runs a supervised release program that helps defendants make their court dates and connect with such services as drug treatment and mental health counseling.
“They issued a bench warrant around 5 p.m. this evening,” New York City Sheriff Joseph Fucito told The Post.
“At 6:18, I was notified that she was a fugitive. We put together teams of deputy sheriffs that did basic background investigation, and started conducting interviews and canvassing known locations,” he added.
A lead materialized that she might be at the Hotel Omega, and investigators were able to confirm through surveillance video that Harris was there, the Sheriff said.
Harris was arrested at 10:15 p.m., and was being held pending an arraignment expected Wednesday morning.
Harris’s lawyer said the judge issued the warrant because of the negative publicity.
“She went to the office as instructed, gave the information she needed, clearly she wanted to leave,” Lisa Schreibersdorf said. “Anyone would want to leave in that circumstance, no one felt she did anything wrong.”
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