A retired doctor was arrested after authorities allegedly discovered cocaine, ketamine and firearms aboard his yacht in Nantucket Harbor.
A retired doctor was arrested after authorities allegedly discovered cocaine, ketamine, firearms and a woman who was suffering from a possible drug overdose aboard his 80-foot yacht in the Nantucket Harbor.
Scott Anthony Burke, 69, faces several charges, including “trafficking between 36 and 100 grams of cocaine, possession to distribute a Class A drug, unlawful firearm possession, and possession of a large capacity feeding device,” theAuthorities received a call on Tuesday at 7:47 a.m that a woman was in “need of medical assistance” aboard the boat in the Massachusetts harbor. When police talked with her they saidshe told them “she did not feel safe” aboard the boat.
“Inside the bedroom, in plain view, I observed a black semiautomatic handgun to be located on a bookshelf, that was on the right side of the bedroom,” the supplemental police report read.Burke said the firearms belonged to him and that he had a license for them in Florida, but the license had expired last year.Burke was first licensed to practice medicine in Colorado in 1981; that license expired in 2021, according to the Colorado Board of Medicine Records.
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