{"id":761166,"date":"2026-07-13T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761166\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:13:09","slug":"sunny-hostin-boasts-about-being-on-the-view-after-her-24-year-old-son-is-arrested-for-trespassing-on-metro-north-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761166\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Hostin boasts about being on &#8216;The View&#8217; after her 24-year-old son is arrested for trespassing on Metro-North tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Sunny Hostin\u2019s son was nabbed trespassing on Metro-North Railroad tracks in Westchester County \u2013 and wasted no time dropping his famous mom\u2019s name, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Hostin, 24, was spotted jogging along MTA tracks in New Rochelle on June 16, ignoring \u201cno trespassing\u201d signs and giving lip to cops when they questioned him, sources said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were just talking to the kid because he was trespassing, but his mother made it an issue,\u201d the sources said. \u201cShe wanted to know why he was stopped and why did they talk to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, cops then got on the phone with the TV personality from the hit ABC talk show, who allegedly asked if they knew who she was.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.984375;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39971770\" width=\"581\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/694178358_18589357951058033_3890078213630919727_n.jpg\" alt=\"Sunny Hostin and her son Gabriel Hostin (aka Gabe Hostin) in a 2026 Instagram post. \" class=\"wp-image-39971770\"  \/>Sunny Hostin and son Gabriel in a 2026 social media post. Instagram\/@gabe._.hostin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said I am Sunny Hostin, I am on \u2018The View,\u2019\u201d the source claimed she answered.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said the path along the tracks typically raises suicide concerns for MTA cops, but there is no indication that Gabriel Hostin was attempting to harm himself.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39971771\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2281129948.jpg\" alt=\"Sunny Hostin The View\" class=\"wp-image-39971771\"  \/>Hostin spoke to cops on the phone, according to sources. ABC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that Gabriel Hostin was stopped shortly before 8 p.m. on June 16 near 24 Station Plaza in the suburban city after he was spotted \u201con the right-of-way of the active railroad tracks, in violation of the posted no trespassing signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard University grad\u00a0was cited for a trespassing violation\u00a0and is due back in New Rochelle court on July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor who is listed as her son\u2019s attorney, declined to comment when reached by phone on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>But in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/13\/sunny-hostin-son-gabriel-facing-trespassing-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">letter obtained by TMZ<\/a>, the talk show host defended her son\u2019s actions to Westchester Assistant District Attorney Amanda Greene, the prosecutor on her son\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen jogging, he observed what appeared to be a gravel incline that could be used for hill training,\u201d\u00a0Sunny Hostin wrote. \u201cAlthough there was a gate at the entrance of the gravel incline, the gates were standing open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only \u2018No Trespassing\u2019 sign was affixed to the left gate and, because the gates were open, it was not visible to my client as he entered the property,\u201d she claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Sunny Hostin\u2019s son was nabbed trespassing on Metro-North Railroad tracks in Westchester County \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26644,88,53594,2516,194],"class_list":["post-761166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arrests","tag-entertainment","tag-sunny-hostin","tag-the-view","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}