On Tuesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a 70-foot yacht, the Jess Conn, anchored in Nantucket and reportedly discovered medication, weapons and intercourse employees on board. In line with the Nantucket Present, they have been tipped off after native police obtained a “report of a feminine social gathering, on board a yacht, who didn’t wish to be there, was below the affect of narcotics, and presumably has overdosed.”
The harbormaster and Nantucket Hearth Division EMTs have been reportedly capable of get her off the boat and to an area hospital for remedy. An additional search of the Jess Conn turned up 43.4 grams of cocaine, 14.1 grams of ketamine and two Smith & Wesson pistols. The proprietor, Scott Anthony Burke, a retired physician from Key West, Florida, was arrested.
In line with the police report, “The Nantucket Police Division and the DEA Cape Cod Resident Workplace continued an investigation and Burke was moreover charged with 1 rely of Trafficking in Class B, 1 rely of Possession to Distribute Class A, 1 rely of Possession of a Firearm with no License, 1 rely of Possession of Ammunition with no License and 4 Counts of Possession of a Massive Capability Feeding System.”
Presently, there aren’t any updates on the situation of the lady who was taken to the hospital, however in conditions like this, no information is commonly excellent news. Hopefully, she’ll be again on her ft rapidly. As for Burke, these drug trafficking and weapons fees in all probability received’t be straightforward to get out of. Then once more, he’s wealthy sufficient to personal a $7.5 million Nordhavn 80, so he’s clearly obtained sufficient cash to rent some costly legal professionals. Who is aware of? Possibly they’ll be capable of negotiate it all the way down to a advantageous and some hours of neighborhood service.
On an unrelated observe, again in early Could, the Jess Conn was photographed within the Florida Keys after it quickly ran aground.