Suspended 120 daysmost recent record, 2024 · as reported
Soto has 2 sustained major discipline records from Trenton PD, spanning 2021 to 2024. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Conduct Unbecoming; Incompetency, Inefficiency, or Failure to Perform Duties.
Discipline timeline, 2021 to 2024
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2 records, 2021 to 2024
Major discipline records reported for Samantha Soto, by year
Officer Samantha Soto received a 120-day suspension from the Trenton Police Department in 2024. Soto failed to safely proceed through an intersection against a red light while responding to a call for service, resulting in a collision with a civilian vehicle. The sustained charge was Incompetency, Inefficiency, or Failure to Perform Duties.
Police Officer Samantha Soto failed to safely proceed through an intersection against a red light while responded to a call for service, resulting in a collision with a civilian vehicle.
Officer Samantha Soto received a 90-day suspension from the Trenton Police Department in 2021. Soto acted in a manner unbecoming a public employee after her marked police vehicle was stolen. The sustained charge was Conduct Unbecoming.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Samantha Soto's major discipline record?
Soto has 2 sustained major discipline records from Trenton PD, spanning 2021 to 2024. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Conduct Unbecoming; Incompetency, Inefficiency, or Failure to Perform Duties.
What is Samantha Soto's major discipline record at Trenton Police Department?
Samantha Soto has 2 major discipline records at Trenton Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Trenton Police Department, the department Samantha Soto worked for?
Trenton Police Department reported 239 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Samantha Soto individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1163. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2606. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1163. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. The timeline counts rows 1163, 2606. ↩
[4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8379. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩