Police & Courts

A career criminal already behind bars has now been charged with six more felony counts after an investigation by Southampton Town detectives into a string of burglaries between March and May.

Richard Ambrose, 40, of Shirley was taken to Southampton Town Justice Court from the county jail in Riverside on Jan. 12 and arraigned on the new charges.

Southampton Village police had arrested him on Sept. 16 on a burglary charge, and a grand jury indicted him four days later. On Sept. 26, he was arraigned in county court, with New York State Justice John B.

East Hampton

A Montauk man called police on Jan. 15 after taking his car to the Citgo service center on North Main Street.

Unable to make bail of $10,000, a Springs man charged with felony drunken driving has been in the county jail since Saturday.

A 16-year-old East Hampton High School student turned himself in this week after East Hampton Town detectives left a note at his Springs residence.

After failing sobriety tests and being told he was to be arrested, police said, he resisted, hanging on to the rear of the car while an officer tried to handcuff him.

East Hampton Village

Police went to a Huntting Lane house to check on the well-being of a resident after receiving a report of what appeared to be blood in the snow near the front porch. The man, whose name was redacted from the incident report, is known to the police because he has chased strangers down the street in the past. He told an officer that the stains in the snow were beet juice he had disposed of.

A call reporting a seal in distress took police to Main Beach late Saturday afternoon.

A Manhattan woman who works as a medical assistant forged a prescription for Klonopin that was filled at White’s Pharmacy in East Hampton in May, according to the charge brought against her in East Hampton Town Justice court Tuesday afternoon.

Donna Lemons, 57, was arrested after a detective who is with the Southampton Town Police and is a member of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s East End Drug Task Force traced the prescription back to her.

East Hampton

 Someone drove onto the grounds of the East Hampton Farm Museum, at the corner of North Main and Cedar Streets, on Jan. 4, leaving ruts and partially pushing the cover of a septic system out of place. The East Hampton Town Parks Department is to repair the damage.

It was the day after Christmas when Walter Guerrero, who lives at the Oakview Highway trailer park, noticed the content of his Apple iPhone had been deleted. He told police he was able to download the data from the cloud.

Amagansett

Two vehicles parked in the driveway of a Cross Highway house were keyed over a four-day period recently. Jonathan Alzate told police deep scratches had been made by a key or nail on his 2011 Toyota Tacoma overnight Dec. 18 and that his 2004 Dodge truck was similarly struck overnight Dec. 21.

Nighttime thieves struck unlocked cars in Sag Harbor again last week, continuing a series of incidents that began in mid-December.

An East Hampton man with a history of drug and alcohol convictions may face significant jail time after being charged with felony drunken driving on Saturday morning.

A Christmas-morning crash on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road in Springs resulted in a trip to Southampton Hospital for the driver, who was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.