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News & Notes: Student arrested in alleged assault at Cloister Inn

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A 22-year-old male student was arrested for allegedly attempting to strangle a female student in Cloister Inn on Friday, Borough police reported.

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Police were called to the club at 3:17 a.m. to investigate the reported assault in Cloister’s coat room, police Captain Nicholas Sutter said in a press release. Alcohol was apparently a factor in the altercation, Sutter said in a follow-up e-mail.

A warrant was issued for the man's arrest on charges of aggravated assault and criminal restraint. Both are indictable offenses in New Jersey.

Officers arrested the man at 10:47 a.m. that morning in his University dorm room. He was released after posting 10 percent of his $42,500 bail and is due in court on Monday.

Sutter said that the female student, 21, did not require medical attention at the scene.

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