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Samantha Soto

Trenton Police Department · 2 records · 2021, 2024

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

AnalysisBar colour is this site's severity tier for the reported sanction.

2 records, 2021 to 2024

Major discipline records reported for Samantha Soto, by year
YearRecordsMost serious sanction reported
20211Suspension
20220No record published
20230No record published
20241Suspension
  • Suspension

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024[1]

Suspended 120 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

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.

Rank as reported
Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
, , or Failure to Perform Duties
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

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.

Major discipline · 2021[2]

Suspended 90 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

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.

Rank as reported
Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Soto acted in a manner unbecoming a public employee after her marked police vehicle was stolen.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.
  • Rose Addar · Trenton Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 30 days

    Sustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Charles Lamin · Trenton Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 30 days

    Sustained charge(s): Inefficiency or Incompetency of Supervisors and Superior Officers

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Mark Kieffer III · Trenton Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 120 days

    Sustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming of a Public Employee

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Melvin Hamilton II · Trenton Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 5 days

    Sustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming of a Public Employee

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Kenneth Lugo · Trenton Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 25 days

    Sustained charge(s): Insubordination

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

Other officers at Trenton Police Department

39 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 39 at the Trenton Police Department page

Compensation and pension

No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.

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. [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. [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. [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. [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/.