Drunk Trespasser Arrested in Hoboken Apartment Building

On March 19, 2024 around 10:43, dispatch received a call about an unknown individual who was knocking the door of an apartment building in which she did not reside. Around 11:08 PM, a second call came in to inform them that a female they did not know had entered an apartment unit on the second floor of the same building. Officer Rose Kanan responded to the apartment building and noticed that the door was open. She entered the apartment and walked up to the second floor, where she was met with 52-year-old woman and her 15-year-old son.

Officer Montalvo, Officer Quinn, and Sergeant Falco all arrived on scene shortly afterwards. The woman told the officers that the other woman had entered her son’s room. Officers Kanan and Montalvo guided the other woman outside of the apartment so they could talk to her in the hallway. During the course of the investigation, they determined that she was a 31-year-old woman who lived in another apartment building nearby in Hoboken.

The woman seemed intoxicated and she told the officers that she had been at a few bars in Hoboken earlier that evening. However, she was unable to provide the address of the building that she was in. After determining that she did not reside inside that building, Officer Kanan placed her under arrest for trespassing. After she was escorted to the patrol car, Officers Tamborra and Quinn spoke with the residents of the unit. The woman who rented the unit told the officers that she wanted to sign a complaint against the other woman who was trespassing inside her apartment.

The woman was transported to the Hoboken Police Department for further processing. At police HQ, she refused to be fingerprinted. Since they were unable to find another adult to take responsibility for her, Officers Santiago and Ingraffia transported her to Hoboken University Medical Center for further evaluation. Officer Kanan issued her the following summonses: Trespassing (2C:18-3A) and Refusal to Submit to Fingerprinting (53:1-15)

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