Crime & Safety

DA: Jonathan Roth Misses Sentencing

Warrant issued for son of Missing swimmer.

Now it's Jonathan Roth who's missing.

Roth, 23, the son of Missing Jones Beach Swimmer Raymond Roth, did not show up for a sentencing hearing, Friday, prosecutors said.

He had plead guilty to charges that he helped his father commit insurance fraud  but the judge revoked his bail and issued a warrant for his arrest, according to a spokesman for Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice.

Following the July 2012 incident, Roth told  police that he saw his father walk into the ocean chest high near Field 6 at Jones Beach, according to the complaint. 

A massive search was conducted and Raymond Roth turned up alive a few days later.

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