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Retired doctor arrested on yacht containing guns, drugs, and prostitutes after distress call from woman

  • Police searched a yacht in Nantucket Harbor after a distress call from a woman feeling unsafe, finding guns, ammunition, cocaine, ketamine, and prostitutes on board.
  • The yacht's owner, retired doctor Scott Anthony Burke, was arrested on multiple charges including drug trafficking and illegal firearm possession.
  • Burke pleaded not guilty at his arraignment but was held on $200,000 cash bail at a detention hearing.
  • The investigation began after the 70-foot yacht arrived in Nantucket from Newport, Rhode Island.
  • Burke is a former doctor from Colorado who more recently started a medical insurance company in Florida.
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