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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.

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a fun weekend.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Drugs and guns do not mix.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Sure they do. There's even a government alphabet agency that mixes them together.

Can't be wrong if the government does it!

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Don't do cigarettes and guns, sinner.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How about cigarettes and flamethrowers?

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Well how else are you gonna light em? You're not some bic toting commie, are ya?

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You light your next smoke with the previous one like a real man.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Monkey fucking.

What did your friends call it?

[-] girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

He was docked there since August 23. Seems he likes his women drugged for extended periods of time. 😕

[-] Hank@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I bet he's really good at anesthetics.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I bet he was also one of thoss docters that would give ibuprofen for serious pain, becauses drugs are baaaad.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

He can't be THAT good. One got away!

[-] Mudface@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I don’t think any of these things should be illegal

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In and of themselves (just having drugs, guns and prostitutes)? I agree. But depending on what was being done with those things (except maybe the drugs), I could see some shit that definitely shouldn't be legal. Human trafficking not least withstanding.

[-] Mudface@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Right, but I’m assuming those hypothetical charges would have been laid as well if they were real?

Why would they not charge him with the worst of the crimes if that was the case?

[-] wahming 4 points 1 year ago

Sometimes they start with 1 or 2 while building up the case for the bigger ones

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

They would charge them with as many things as they think would stick. Although I do think you're right, in that the headline would go for the more sensational crimes, if it was the case.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

No, the drugs too. Giving someone drugs without their consent is never OK. All 3 of those things can be used in ways that shouldn't be legal.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Who said they were prostitutes? These are just ladies, partying with a wealthy dude, you can't prove shit.

[-] CryptoRoberto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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!

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can be a drug trafficker if you buy a weed brownie in a legal state and drive to a stupid state.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Correct. Which is a good reason to not do it if you want to avoid prison.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

what's the point of going to med school otherwise?

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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