For more than a week there had been much speculation about whether there would be any arrests connected to the strange case of Raymond Roth and his family.
Roth is the Massapequa resident whose son Jonathan on July 28 at Jones Beach. After authorities spent days searching for him, Roth after he was stopped briefly by cops in South Carolina. His current whereabouts are unknown.
From that point on there have been questions of whether Jon Roth conspired to help his father fake his death. It didn't help that the "missing" man's ex-wife of exchanging emails with her father in in which Raymond Roth asked his son to contact him at a resort the day after he disappeared.
Jon Roth denied seeing the emails,and is charged with fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, according to the Nassau County District Attorney.
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