He was charged with insurance fraud and filing a false police report. For what it's worth (nothing), his girlfriend says he's innocent!
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Good news: Raymond Roth, the 47-year-old Massapequa man who was reported missing by his son after he went swimming in the ocean at Jones Beach on Saturday, is alive! The bad news is that he was caught speeding in South Carolina yesterday and may have tried to fake his own death. The cost of the Coast Guard's air, land, and sea rescue mission, which had gone on for days, has yet to be calculated.
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Members of the Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which is staging a production of Richard III on Rikers Island, are performing under some difficult circumstances: Only after crossing the river from Queens, passing several ID and metal detector checks, and receiving an ultraviolet hand stamp, do the actors finally get to see the stage and props they'll be using (a 14-by-14-foot taped-off section of a gym floor and paper and rattan swords, respectively.) As for "the fans oscillating at top speed," "telephone ringing in the corner," and "guard walking by with jangling handcuffs and jingling keys," there's nothing the actors can really do except emote, emote, emote.
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