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Though Taylor Swift<\/strong> is on the road with her Eras tour, that didn\u2019t stop one apparent fan from stopping by the singer-songwriter\u2019s Rhode Island home, despite warnings to stay away. Police say that a 54-year-old woman was arrested this week after Swift\u2019s private security told her to leave the home\u2019s front gate area and she balked, the latest in a series of trespassers that have swarmed the mansion since Swift purchased it a decade ago.<\/p>\n Westerly Police Chief Paul Gingerella<\/strong> tells CNN that<\/a> the arrest was made on July 3, after the woman\u2014named by TMZ<\/a> as Kimberly Meyer<\/strong>\u2014was reported as a trespasser on the property, just outside its front gates. She was still there when police arrived, and was cuffed, arrested, and charged with one misdemeanor count of trespassing. She\u2019s since been released and is expected to appear in court for her arraignment on July 14.<\/p>\n In 2013, Rhode Island Monthly reported<\/a> that Swift bought the home in the tony enclave of Watch Hill<\/a> for $17.75 million, spurring complaints from beachgoers over her allegedly overzealous security detail<\/a> and engaging in an uncomfortable dispute<\/a> with a local t-shirt maker that designed a Swift-themed shirt to commemorate her arrival in the region.<\/p>\n As Swift settled into the five-acre, 11,000-square-foot property, a new challenge arose: trespassers started to visit the property, the Washington Post reports<\/a>, including notes left for Swift at the gates and a Chicago man who attempted to swim to the home<\/a>. In a first-person account published by Elle<\/a> in 2019, Swift said that \u201cwebsites and tabloids have taken it upon themselves to post every home address I\u2019ve ever had online.\u201d (That\u2019s certainly true for this home, the address for which popped up on Google in an instant.) \u201cYou get enough stalkers trying to break into your house,\u201d she said, \u201cand you kind of start prepping for bad things.\u201d<\/p>\n Stalkers and trespassers have also dogged Swift elsewhere, as has been wildly reported. In June, 36-year-old Indiana man Mitchell Taebel was arrested on \u201ccharges of stalking by threatening serious injury or death, intimidation, invasion of privacy and harassment\u201d after an alleged series of escalating threats and attempts to reach Swift at her home in Nashville, Tennessee. He\u2019s expected to appear in court on July 27, the New York Post reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear if Swift was home at the time of this latest incident, as TMZ claims she was in Rhode Island for the July 4 holiday, and a social media post<\/a> from Swift suggests she was celebrating with friends,<\/a> including the Haim<\/strong> sisters and Selena Gomez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n