A man was arrested on his boat in a Nantucket harbor Tuesday after police were called to give medical help to a woman onboard, officials said.
Further investigation of the man, Key Largo, Florida, resident Scott A. Burke, led to drug and further weapons charges, the Nantucket Police Department said in a news release Wednesday.
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Burke faces charges of gun possession without a license, drug trafficking, ammunition possession without a license and having a large-capacity feeding device, police said.
The medical incident was first reported in Nantucket Harbor about 7:47 a.m. on Tuesday, police said. The woman was taken to Nantucket Cottage Hospital; police didn't share her condition in their news release Wednesday.
The investigation, which continued as of Wednesday, involved Nantucket police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, police said.