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