Amsterdam DWI: Cambridge man charged with child in car

Amsterdam DWI: Cambridge man charged with child in car By WNYT AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (WNYT) — A Cambridge man is accused of driving drunk with a child in the vehicle. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said deputies stopped Jonathan C. Johnson, 33, at about 10:21 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, on East Main Street in Amsterdam for multiple traffic violations. Police said they interviewed Johnson, detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage and gave him standardized field sobriety tests, which they said he failed. Deputies said they also found a child younger than 16 in the vehicle. Johnson was charged with aggravated DWI with a child passenger less than 16, driving while ability impaired by combined drugs and alcohol, endangering the welfare of a child, operating an uninspected motor vehicle and an equipment violation for no or insufficient tail lamps. Johnson was arraigned in Amsterdam City Court before Judge Lorman and sent to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $5,000 cash bail.