NEW YORK, Dec. 17 An Emmy award-winning TV news anchor has been arrested in New York City for allegedly punching a female police officer in an apparent fit of road rage.
Alycia Lane, a co-anchor for the CBS affiliate KYW-TV in Philadelphia, was arrested during the weekend in Manhattan and charged with felony assault of a police officer.
Lane pleaded not guilty and was released without bail. She is due in court April 3.
She reportedly was with her boyfriend, Chris Booker, in a cab that was stuck behind an unmarked police car traveling slowly as the officers inside looked for a suspect.
Booker allegedly got out of the cab and confronted the people inside the car when it stopped at a red light, prompting the cops to leave their vehicle to question him, the New York Post said.
Lane allegedly leaped out of the taxi, snapped some pictures, confronted the plainclothes, on-duty cops in the vehicle and slugged one officer in the face.
But Lane's attorney David Smith told the New York Daily News Lane "absolutely didn't hit or make derogatory remarks to anyone."
"She was inside the taxi when the initial confrontation was going on," he said.
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