Scott Burke, 69, faces drug trafficking and weapons charges after arrest
A doctor was arrested after police found guns, drugs and prostitutes aboard a 70ft motor yacht anchored at a small island of Massachusetts.
The yacht Jess Conn, which is out of Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, was raided in Nantucket Harbor after a woman was evacuated from it and taken to a waiting ambulance.
The vessel’s owner Scott Burke, 69, was taken into custody after the raid by Nantucket Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Mr Burke, of Key Largo, Florida, faces drug trafficking and weapons charges and is set to be arraigned in Nantucket District Court on 11 September, reported The Nantucket Current.
Sounds like a fun weekend.
He was docked there since August 23. Seems he likes his women drugged for extended periods of time. 😕
I bet he’s really good at anesthetics.
I bet he was also one of thoss docters that would give ibuprofen for serious pain, becauses drugs are baaaad.
I don’t think any of these things should be illegal
I mean, regardless of how you feel about any of those aspects:
This was triggered because a woman had a medical emergency. It isn’t much of a stretch to think about what that means when you have prostitutes AND enough illegal drugs to be brought up on drug trafficking charges.
So, regardless of how you feel about the legality of those*, these were not responsible adults just exercising their freedoms.
*: Personally? Pro prostitution, anti-guns, depends on what kinds of drugs
It doesn’t say anything about the amount of drugs. Drug trafficking simply means they moved the drugs with the yacht. It’s a scary copaganda word used to make things sound worse than they are. Probably just a couple grams of coke and they happened to of moved from one states waters to another.
Who said they were prostitutes? These are just ladies, partying with a wealthy dude, you can’t prove shit.
I feel like the line between prostitute and women who have sex with 69 year old guys who have money and drugs is pretty blurry. Then again, I don’t really have a problem with sex work and don’t think it should really be considered a stigma or insult.
What about the guns and drug trafficking? Good luck with that kind of defense.
“Your honor I was only playing with the drugs, you can’t PROVE that I was trafficking them!!”
Lulz!
You can be a drug trafficker if you buy a weed brownie in a legal state and drive to a stupid state.
Correct. Which is a good reason to not do it if you want to avoid prison.
what’s the point of going to med school otherwise?
hopefully he wasnt doing anything bad
Because of the implications?
I wonder what the hull on something like that is made out of? I feel like it’s too big to be fiberglass. Steel plate is obvious, but what grade? I don’t think a yacht would use A36, but I just don’t know.
