Wealthy Probationer Shoots Up Guilford Parking Lot After Madison Police Chief Ignores Child Rape and Drugs Den
By Richard Luthmann
AMBROSE’S APT PUPIL
In 2023, then-19-year-old Russell Ballard lived in Madison, Connecticut, when he began frequenting the home of disgraced former DNC lawyer and Hollywood screenwriter Christopher Ambrose. Ballard was already on probation for drug crimes.
Russell Ballard
Avid readers of this publication know Ambrose very well as a MADMAN, one of the great villains of American Family Court.
Ballard didn’t just visit Ambrose’s home—he partied. Witnesses say Ballard engaged in sex, drugs, and overnight stays in the basement, a veritable den of iniquity, surrounded by underage teens and drugs.
Madison Police Chief Jack Drumm knew about it. He was told directly.
CHIEF DRUMM LOOKED THE OTHER WAY
A July 25, 2023, letter from journalist Richard Luthmann to the Connecticut Family Court laid out the situation clearly. The amicus-style warning details proofs of serious abuse and misconduct. Ambrose is accused of facilitating or allowing underage sex, drug use, and alcohol consumption in his Madison, CT home. Russell Ballard is identified as one of several young adult men engaging in sexual activity with 14- and 15-year-old children during overnight parties. Daughter Mia Ambrose was present.
Luthmann cites five exhibits, including:
- A June 6, 2023 email from Mia Ambrose’s own attorney referencing a new allegation of penetration.
- A May 29, 2023 report by private investigator Manuel Gomez to federal authorities (FBI, U.S. Attorney) detailing alleged molestation.
- A May 3, 2023 report from forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee warning about Ambrose’s dangerousness. According to Dr. Lee, Ambrose is more dangerous than individuals who are currently locked up in maximum security institutions.
- A May 29, 2023 sworn statement from Mia Ambrose detailing abuse and improper touching, and corroborating the presence of adult men during teen parties.
- Social media photos showing underage drinking and drug use linked to Ambrose’s household.
Luthmann urged Drumm and the court to consider and investigate the materials as they relate to the safety of the children involved, explicitly stating he believes Ambrose is a psychopath and a pedophile based on the expert evidence.
Drumm was listed on the letter. Superior Court Judge Thomas O’Neill referenced it in the court proceedings.
Instead of busting Ballard for violating his probation, Drumm ignored it.
Drumm was made aware of Ballard’s child sex and drug use. Ballard was on probation. Drumm was copied directly and he didn’t act.
That inaction would have devastating consequences.
JACK DRUMM’S CRIME SCHOOL: BULLETS IN GUILFORD
On October 18, 2024, just three months after Drumm received the explosive letter, Russell Ballard opened fire in a Guilford parking lot.
Surveillance footage showed Ballard hanging out the window of a moving vehicle with a loaded handgun and extended magazine. Bullets sprayed toward another car. One of the victims was a minor.
Ballard fled, but New Haven police caught him when he arrived for a scheduled probation meeting.
When they searched his car and home, they uncovered the arsenal: the same gun used in the shooting, a machine gun conversion device, and drugs.
Police also found a second loaded extended magazine and evidence of narcotics trafficking.
Ballard now faces a mountain of charges:
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Criminal possession of a firearm
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Weapons in a motor vehicle
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Unlawful discharge of a firearm
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First-degree reckless endangerment
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Illegal possession of large-capacity magazines
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Possession with intent to sell hallucinogens
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Possession of a controlled substance (second offense)
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Negligent storage of a firearm
He’s being held on $750,000 bond.
Because Ballard comes from a wealthy Connecticut family, it is questionable whether he will face any consequences.
He currently resides in a “high-end” drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, awaiting the charges to resolve.
Connecticut justice.
JACK DRUMM’S CRIME SCHOOL: THE AMBROSE CONNECTION
Ballard’s name surfaced repeatedly in investigative documents concerning Christopher Ambrose. The same reports that detailed sexual abuse, molestation allegations, and drug-fueled parties involving Ambrose and underage minors also noted Ballard’s close proximity to the chaos.
One sworn affidavit from Karen Riordan—the mother of the Ambrose children—described how Ballard frequented the home and partied with Ambrose and his teenage children.
In court pleadings in family court, she begged the family court and DCF to stop Ambrose’s dangerous behavior and protect her children.
The May 29, 2023 report by Private Investigator Manuel Gomez to federal authorities named Ballard as a party to the ongoing criminality in the Ambrose household.
The report alleged that DCF had evidence of penetration and molestation—and that video evidence had been submitted to federal agencies.
Yet no one moved.
Not Chief Drumm.
Not DCF.
And certainly not the Connecticut Family Court.
CT FAMILY COURT’S PEDOPHILE PROTECTION PROGRAM?
Critics have long called out what they describe as a “pedophile protection program” operating out of Connecticut’s family court. At the center: Christopher Ambrose.
Ambrose, the former Clinton lawyer and NYU Law grad, lost his Hollywood career after plagiarism accusations.
Since then, he’s been accused by his own adopted children of abuse and molestation, forcing them to flee the state for safety. The children’s petitions were ignored or dismissed.
Meanwhile, Ambrose weaponized the courts to silence his ex-wife and her advocates. Ambrose hoodwinked Judge Thomas J. O’Neill into finding the 110 pound teacher the perpetrator of domestic violence by “coercive control,” forever twisting Jennifer’s Law in Connecticut. But Judge O’Neill’s arm didn’t need to be twisted much.
Ballard didn’t just break probation. He was groomed into a culture of violence, drugs, and sexual exploitation, hosted in a home that Connecticut authorities refuse to police.
He was groomed by Christopher Ambrose.
The Connecticut Department of Children and Families has refused comment, and well they shouldn’t. Two of the Ambrose children have turned 18 and lawsuits are expected.
JACK DRUMM’S CRIME SCHOOL: WHAT DID THE CHIEF KNOW—AND WHEN?
Public records confirm that Luthmann’s July 2023 letter—flagging Ballard’s probation violations and the underage sex and drug proofs—was sent to Madison Police Chief Jack Drumm’s official city email address: drummj@madisonct.org.
There is no record that Drumm responded.
Russell Ballard could have been pulled off the streets. Instead, he was protected by silence.
Child drug use and rape could have been stopped. But, that’s not part of the public policy of the Nutmeg State.
Now victims from the Guilford parking lot, including children, remain traumatized. Connecticut’s system continues to fail them and those who spoke out about the dangers created by Blue Blood Psychopath Christopher Ambrose and ignored by Police Chief Jack Drumm.
And a wealthy young man who should face decades in prison will skate away, much like the wealthy benefactor of his den of iniquity.
Jack Drumm’s Crime School teaches but one lesson: when you’re wealthy in Connecticut the laws don’t apply.
