Southampton man charged with impersonating former business partner to cancel $4,000 Aruba vacation
A Southampton man was charged with id theft after he pretended to be his former business partner and canceled his vacation, costing the former partner greater than $4,000, Suffolk police mentioned.
On March 22, 2025, the alleged sufferer, a Moriches man, arrived at Kennedy Airport and was knowledgeable by airport workers that his pay as you go vacation to Aruba had been canceled about three hours earlier than departure, police mentioned.
Following an investigation, detectives decided the man’s former business partner, Ronald Fisher, 42, had contacted the journey company by cellphone and impersonated the man, utilizing his private data to cancel the journey and inflicting a lack of $4,202.
Fisher turned himself in on the Seventh Precinct and was charged with misdemeanor first-degree id theft.
Fisher pleaded not responsible throughout an arraignment Thursday in First District Court in Central Islip. A decide issued a short lived order of safety and launched him on his personal recognition.
His court-assigned felony protection legal professional couldn’t be reached for remark.
Prosecutors mentioned Fisher used the sufferer’s e mail deal with and private data to cancel the pay as you go vacation.
Fisher was concerned in litigation with a former business partner, Jerry Smith, relating to their joint possession of a Southampton business, Fisher Signs & Shirts.
Smith filed swimsuit in June 2025 in state Supreme Court in Suffolk, claiming he was frozen out of the business and alleging Fisher canceled his medical health insurance 401(okay) and withheld earnings.
Smith’s Melville-based legal professional, Matthew J. Barnes, mentioned Thursday that Smith was the alleged sufferer within the id theft case whose vacation was canceled.
“The fallout of the business partners is significant and these allegations occurred during the period of that fallout,” Barnes mentioned. “My client is trying to recover his significant losses.”
Fisher’s civil legal professional within the case, Kenneth C. Murphy, mentioned Thursday he was not acquainted with the felony expenses and didn’t touch upon the pending lawsuit
