Looking for Ethan James

A year or so ago I purchased a whistle (brass wide-bore Burke)from Ethan James - we made the contact via C&F. We had a nice e-mail correspondence going around the whistle and Irish music, which suddenly stopped on his end. A bit ago my bank called saying he had never cashed my check. Does anyone know anything about him? Besides being generally concerned, I’d like to make good on the whistle purchase if possible…