Sunny Hostin tried to talk cops out busting her Harvard-educated son for trespassing on Metro-North tracks: He has no criminal record
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin tried to talk cops out of issuing her Ivy League-educated son a tresspassing citatoin — telling them he “has no criminal record” and repeately citing her legal background, according to police bodycam footage.The TV personality and former federal prosecutor was on the phone with her 24-year-old son, Gabriel Hostin, when he was stopped by police for trespassing on Metro-North Railroad tracks in Westchester County last month.
“My name is Sunny Hostin and I’m one of the co-hosts of ‘The View’ and I’m a former federal prosecutor,” the 57-year-old mom can be heard saying to the responding officers in the bodycam footage obtained by The Post.“That’s my son.
He’s a Harvard graduate, he doesn’t have a criminal record,” she said to another cop while on the phone.Gabriel Hostin was detained on the side of the tracks in New Rochelle for “criminal trespassing” shortly before 8 p.m.on June 16 near 24 Station Plaza after he was spotted “on the right-of-way of the active railroad tracks, in violation of the posted no trespassing signs,” according to the footage and court recordsThe 2025 Harvard University grad told the cops that he was out for a run and saw the gate near the tracks was open.After being detained on the tracks, the cops and Gabriel Hostin make their way to a nearby street, when the TV personality arrives on scene, doubling down on defending her son.“I’m a former federal prosecutor.
He knows.He’s a Harvard grad who teaches 4th grade geometry to South Bronx kids,” Sunny Hostin argues to one of the four apparent responding officers. “He’s not a kid who’s ever in trouble.
It’s an innocent mistake,” she pleads while acknowledging the violation.Ultimately, the 24-year-old was slapped with a trespass violation for what can be an arrestable offense —but not without first trying to sweet talk his way out of the slap on the wrist. “Is this necessary,” Gabriel Hostin asks the c...