The owner of a New England party yacht was arrested on drug and gun charges last week after Nantucket police raided the 80-foot Jess Conn when they were notified of a woman in distress on the vehicle.

An application for a search warrant says a friend of that woman, who had been Facetiming with her overnight, alerted police to the situation on board on September 5, according to the Nantucket Current.  He said the woman told him she wanted to get off the boat, but the call dropped. He believed she was overdosing.

She reportedly told her friend “they were doing drugs all weekend long and people on the boat had been making pornographic films” and that the drugs there were doing included ketamine, Adderall, ecstasy, and cocaine.

The woman was eventually taken off the boat and to a hospital.

Investigators boarded the boat just before 3:30 that afternoon, court documents say, and confiscated cocaine, ketamine, two pistols, and various ammunition. Scott Burke, the Jess Conn’s 69-year-old owner, was given a $200,000 bond at arraignment last Thursday.

His attorney, Hank Brennan, told the Current that the man who called police was a “bitter ex-boyfriend” of the woman and that he was “upset she wouldn’t come see him, and I wouldn’t put much stock in anything he has to say.”

The woman, however, told police that “she did not feel safe and was afraid to be on the boat,” court documents said.

Police said Burke was initially “extremely uncooperative” and that drugs and guns were lying about the boat in plain sight in the bedroom where the woman was found. He denied any knowledge of the drugs but admitted the guns were his, saying he had a license to carry firearms. Investigators later determined his Florida license to carry expired a year ago.

Brennan told the court on Thursday that Burke had a party on board the Jess Conn and that everyone had left the boat except the woman, who asked to stay a few more days. Brennan said Burke was waiting for the boat’s captain to return from a wedding on the day of the police raid.

Burke is a retired surgeon who practicted in Colorado and now lives in Florida. He is due in court again on October 16.

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[Featured image: Scott Burke/LinkedIn]