Two local women allegedly snuck into 1903 Hall on April 16, got into a fight with several students and proceeded to “ransack” a room, Borough Police said.
Ashley Goldsmith, 25, and Amanda Ortiz, 24, allegedly “illegally entered” 1903 as students exited the dorm, Borough Police Captain Nicholas Sutter said in an email.
Around midnight, the two women allegedly got into a fight with several students outside of a room on the first floor. Goldsmith and Ortiz then reportedly entered a second room and began “ransacking” the room, Sutter said. Police believe they tried to steal items, including rain boots, from the room.
Public Safety officers arrived at 1903 soon after and detained the pair.
Borough police officers responded shortly after midnight and arrested the women. Police officers reported that Goldsmith and Ortiz had been “consuming alcoholic beverages” and appeared to be intoxicated at the time.
Ashley Mitchell ’11, whose room was the subject of the alleged theft, said in an email that she was in a friend’s room in 1903 when Public Safety told her about the incident shortly after it happened.
Later, police “asked me to take a brief look around my room, and while it was noticeably messier than how I had left it, it did not appear that any major items had been taken,” she said.
“In all, I feel very lucky that nothing was taken, and I will never ever leave my door unlocked again,” she added.
Police charged Goldsmith, of Princeton, and Ortiz, of Plainsboro, with theft, burglary and criminal mischief. They both posted 10 percent of their $5,000 bail and were released on April 17.
It is unclear how the Borough learned of the incident. Sutter said that “Our department was contacted by [Public Safety] per their protocol for such calls.”
But Charles Davall, Public Safety’s deputy director for operations, said in an email, “I don’t know how [Borough Police] found out about the call.”
“In a case like this, normally we would be the agency that presses charges,” he added.
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