PRINCETON POLICE BLOTTER: April 7

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Benjamin Li, 22,of Princeton, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for $150 from Princeton Municipal Court at 12:38 p.m. April 4 on Washington Road after he was found to be driving with a suspended driver’s license. 
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Keydotta Spady, 32, of Trenton, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for $95 from Trenton Municipal Court after she was stopped on South Harrison Street at 12:09 p.m. April 4 for failure to wear a seatbelt and failure to use a hands-free cell phone device. 
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A woman reported that her purse was stolen after she inadvertently left it in a shopping cart as she was loading groceries into her car in the parking lot at McCaffrey’s grocery story at the Princeton Shopping Center at 1 p.m. April 3. The victim drove away and then realized she did not have her purse. When she returned, she found the shopping cart but the purse was missing. 
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Dequan Holman, 24, of Princeton, was charged with hindering apprehension by giving police false information after he was stopped on Ewing Street for improper use of high beams at 3:25 a.m. April 3. He was also found to have a no-bail warrant from Mercer County Superior Court and two outstanding warrants from Princeton and West Windsor municipal courts totaling $600. He was turned over to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department. 
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Police investigated a report that someone had threatened a patron inside the Ivy Inn on Nassau Street by showing a knife. The incident, which was reported at 12:17 p.m. April 2, is still under investigation. 
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Carlos Salguero-Mateo, 29, of Princeton, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for $500 from Princeton Municipal Court after he was stopped for driving erratically on Quaker Road at 8:57 p.m. April 2. He was also charged with hindering apprehension for providing false information to police. 
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Andrew Hunt, 20, of Milwaukie, Oregon, was charged with underage possession of alcohol and Michael Buono, 22, of Arlington, Virginia, was charged with serving alcohol to minors following a pedestrian stop on Nassau Street at 8:05 p.m. April 2. 
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Tahira Dixon, 31, of Trenton, was arrested on outstanding warrants totaling $1,700 after she was stopped on State Road for driving with a suspended driver’s license at 9:34 a.m. April 2. The warrants were issued by the Trenton and Riverton Borough municipal courts. 
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Duncan Saunders, 22, of Lawrence Township was arrested on an outstanding warrant for $100 from Lawrence Township Municipal Court at 12:48 a.m. April 2 after he was stopped for driving an unregistered vehicle on Hutchinson Drive. He was also found to be driving with a suspended driver’s license. 
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Stephen Ranallo, 23, of Trenton, was charged with possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after he was stopped for a maintenance of lights violation on his car on Nassau Street at 10:23 p.m. April 1. 
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Dwight Donis, 18, of Princeton, was charged with underage possession of alcohol after police investigated a suspicious parked car on Moore Street at 8:36 p.m. March 31. 
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Rubinder Bains, 39, of Hillsborough Township, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for $145 from Princeton Municipal Court after a random license plate inquiry showed that the registered owner of the car was driving with a suspended driver’s license. The incident occurred on State Road at 7:13 p.m. March 31. 
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A Prospect Avenue resident reported at 8:54 a.m. March 31 that when her accountant attempted to file her 2015 tax refund electronically, the accountant was alerted that someone had already used the victim’s Social Security number and filed a fraudulent tax return. The Internal Revenue Service was notified. 
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Nery Monroy, 27, of Trenton, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for $120 from Trenton Municipal Court after he was stopped for speeding on Quaker Road at 8:04 a.m. March 31. He was also found to be driving with a suspended driver’s license. 
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A woman reported that her iPhone 6 was stolen from the Princeton Public Library on Witherspoon Street at 5:46 p.m. March 30. The iPhone was later recovered in Montgomery Township. 