{"id":303938,"date":"2025-10-15T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303938\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:04:14","slug":"letitia-james-fugitive-relative-was-arrested-twice-for-assaulting-cops-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303938\/","title":{"rendered":"Letitia James’ ‘fugitive’ relative was arrested twice for assaulting cops: docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORFOLK, Virginia \u2014 New York\u2019s top law enforcer<\/a>\u00a0is housing a cop-hating fugitive relative\u00a0with\u00a0a lengthy felony rap sheet \u2014 who\u00a0was twice arrested for assaulting police officers \u2014 at one of her Virginia homes, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

State attorney general Letitia James\u2019 grand-niece, Nakia Thompson, 36, is currently wanted for \u201cabsconding\u201d from North Carolina after failing to complete the terms of her parole following a 2011 arrest in Winston-Salem, authorities said.<\/p>\n

In that case, she was charged with malicious conduct by a prisoner, a felony, along with assault of a government official and resisting a public officer, court records show.<\/p>\n

But Thompson has also been repeatedly arrested and cited in Virginia, since moving there \u2014 with charges including possession of burglary tools, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and grand larceny.<\/p>\n

NY AG Latitia James\u2019 grand-niece, Nakia Thompson, is currently wanted in North Carolina for failing to complete the terms of her parole. NC Dept. of Correction<\/p>\n

Since 2020, Thompson has been living at a house owned by James<\/a> in Norfolk, which is now at the center of a criminal indictment against the AG.<\/p>\n

That same year, Thompson was given two years probation and ordered to pay $2,020 in fees after she pleaded guilty to petit and grand larceny charges \u2014 both felonies, according to court records.<\/p>\n

She also had a handful of misdemeanor charges dropped, as well as the felony burglary tools possession charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has also racked up nine separate vehicle offenses, including as recently as this summer.<\/p>\n

In July, Thompson was hit with four citations in a single day, including driving 80 mph in a 55 zone and stopping her vehicle improperly on a highway.<\/p>\n

The year before she was once again ticketed for going 80 in a 55, and got a summons for improper child restraint, for which she\u00a0was later found guilty in absentia and fined $50.<\/p>\n

Thompson has been living at a house owned by James since 2020. Kristen Zeis<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors accused James of lying on her mortgage application when she bought the house where Thompson lives \u2014 claiming it was a second home that she would not rent out \u2014 in order to obtain a favorable rate.<\/p>\n

James\u2019 signature appears at the bottom of a \u201csecond home rider\u201d on a Fannie Mae\/Freddie Mac mortgage document dated Aug. 17, 2020, which explicitly lays out what the home can and cannot be used for.<\/p>\n

Among the covenants on the rider, which was obtained by The Post, were a requirement that James would \u201coccupy and use\u201d the property as a second home, and maintain \u201cexclusive control\u201d over its occupancy.<\/p>\n

The signed document forbids any \u201cshared ownership arrangement\u201d requiring her to rent the property out or \u201cgive a management firm or any other person or entity any control over the occupancy or use of the<\/p>\n

Property,\u201d and that it would be used \u201cprimarily\u201d for her own personal use.<\/p>\n

In a 2020 state financial disclosure, James listed the home as an \u201cinvestment property\u201d \u2014 which critics say appears to contradict her statements when she bought the house.<\/p>\n

In an indictment filed last week, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginian, Lindsey Halligan, alleged that James, however, has had paying tenants in the house.<\/p>\n

James faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted of bank fraud and making false claims to a financial institution.<\/p>\n

Redacted document regarding New York AG Letitia James\u2019 home in Norfolk Virginia. <\/p>\n

James faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted of bank fraud and making false claims to a financial institution.<\/p>\n

The indictment alleged that James had paying tenants in the house.<\/p>\n

The three-bed, one-bath property is now worth an estimated $235,000.<\/p>\n

On Monday, there was no answer and a no trespassing sign at the door of the house, which James bought in August 2020 for $137,000. <\/p>\n

The three-bed, one-bath property is now worth an estimated $235,000.<\/p>\n

Thompson told a federal grand jury in Virginia that she had been living at the house with her kids and that she was not paying rent to James, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n

The Times also quoted sources close to James as saying that she stayed at the home for extended periods.<\/p>\n

James has denied all wrongdoing and her lawyer called the charges, \u201ctremendous breaches of the public\u2019s trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a finery rally with socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani<\/a> she hit back at the charges and painted herself as a target of President Trump\u2019s administration. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe see powerful voices trying to silence truth and punish dissent and weaponize justice for political gain,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Before event moving into James\u2019 Virginia home, Thompson had a lengthy rap sheet in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

In 2006, she was charged with three counts of assault on a government official, as well as misdemeanor probation violation.<\/p>\n

She also faced a larceny charge that same year.<\/p>\n

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In 2008, she was arrested for bond forfeiture over a previous case.<\/p>\n

In February 2011, she was issued a citation for driving without a valid license and an improperly attached registration plate but failed to appear at an April hearing, and later had a disposition hearing in 2019.<\/p>\n

Thompson was able to plead down the 2011 charges later that year, copping to assaulting a government official and resisting a public officer. She was sentenced to 60 days in prison.<\/p>\n

Latitia\u2019s grand-niece was charged with malicious conduct by a prisoner, a felony, along with assault of a government official and resisting a public officer. AP<\/p>\n

The malicious conduct felony charge was dropped.<\/p>\n

It comes after officials confirmed fugitive Thompson absconded from North Carolina when she and her three children crossed the state line into Virginia.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Thompson is listed as an absconder for willfully avoiding supervision by her probation officer,\u201d a spokesperson from the North Carolina Department of Corrections told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was sentenced to probation for misdemeanor convictions for assault and battery and trespassing. Due to the level of the offenses, the district attorney has designated this case non-extraditable,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe faces arrest if located in North Carolina, and possible activation by the court of the suspended sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORFOLK, Virginia \u2014 New York\u2019s top law enforcer\u00a0is housing a cop-hating fugitive relative\u00a0with\u00a0a lengthy felony rap sheet \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,33241,24980,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,906],"class_list":{"0":"post-303938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-fugitives","11":"tag-letitia-james","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-virginia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115375260571833945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}