Current Court Report - February 3, 2026

This week’s Current Court Report includes arraignments and dispositions from the Monday and Tuesday Nantucket District Court session. This week is jury week in court, so there will be more cases throughout the course of the week.

Nicole Ashley Pelrine, 33, of Dunstable, had a May 25^th, 2025 charge of trafficking cocaine in an amount greater than 18 grams but less than 36 grams nolle prossed and a charge of possessing a Class A drug dismissed. The case is now closed at the request of prosecutors.

Pelrine was the woman arrested during Memorial Day Weekend last year where it was alleged she was in possession of over 70 grams of cocaine and an unidentified amount of heroin at the scene of an overdose. She told police a friend she was visiting on Nantucket consumed 70 Adderall pills that she believed he mistakenly thought were "Reese’s M&Ms." The man was subsequently administered Narcan and med-flighted to an off-island hospital in critical condition.

The case against Pelrine has been in question from the beginning. Jenny Margeson, who was appointed by the court to represent Pelrine at her arraignment, argued last year that this is a clear-cut case under the Good Samaritan Law as Pelrine was the individual who called 911 and was able to get the alleged victim medical attention.

According to Massachusetts Law Chapter 94C, Section 34A, which was passed in 2012 in an attempt to encourage people to call 9-1-1 in an overdose emergency, states in part: “A person who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance for someone experiencing a drug-related overdose shall not be charged or prosecuted for possession of a controlled substance under section 34 or found in violation of a condition of probation or pretrial release as determined by a court or a condition of parole, as determined by the parole board if the evidence for the charge of possession of a controlled substance or violation was gained as a result of the seeking of medical assistance.”

The law states that it does not prevent anyone from being charged with trafficking, distribution or possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

Margeson said Pelrine knew the alleged victim for about one month and that they were friends. Margeson confirmed that this was not Pelrine’s home and claimed that the drugs discovered by Nantucket Police were not hers.

"He experienced an overdose. She called 911. His parents confirmed that they had traveled to the house on Nantucket on Friday, that they were scheduled to leave yesterday on Monday, that she was visiting, that this was not her home, that those were not her belongings,” Margeson argued on behalf of Pelrine. “This is a real straightforward Good Samaritan Case your honor. There was a gentleman experiencing an overdose. She called 911 and she was present at the home. They administered Narcan, as you heard the Commonwealth say, and that didn't work, so clearly this was not a heroin overdose. My client stated she believed that it was his own prescription medication…. that would confirm her story, (and) it clearly wasn't a heroin overdose. The fact that she doesn't have his thorough medical history is not a crime. She was visiting. They've been friends for a month. She was honest with the police that she was here visiting him, that they've known each other for a month. But the fact that she doesn't know his intense medical history is not against the law.”

You can read more from the initial story on this incident here.

After being continued without a finding for one Lamar Lloyd Beckford, 32, of Nantucket had a March 2^nd, 2024 charge of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol dismissed.

Antonio Ivan Esquivel Delgado, 33, of Nantucket had a January 13^th, 2025 charge of open and gross lewdness dismissed due to lack of prosecution.

After completing six months of pretrial probation, Travon A. Grant, 20, of Nantucket had a February 2^nd, 2024 charge of assault & battery on a family/household member dismissed.

Henry Huyser, 44, of Nantucket had two January 5^th, 2025 charges of rape nolle prossed by prosecutors after Huyser was indicted in Superior Court and is facing charges there.

Moris Humberto Maldonado, 44, of Nantucket was arraigned on two November 16^th, 2025 charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He had not-guilty pleas entered on his behalf and was ordered to return to court April 21^st for a pretrial hearing.

Miladiz Murcia de Carranza, 49, of Nantucket had August 4^th, 2024 charges of failure to stop/yield, possessing an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle dismissed due to lack of prosecution.

Isamary Nunez, 33, of Nantucket had a December 3^rd, 2025 charge of assault & battery dismissed due to lack of prosecution after the alleged victim in the case declined to cooperate with prosecutors.

Ilio G. Perez, 48, of Nantucket had the probation he was serving following a guilty plea on a February 27^th, 2024 charge of assault & battery terminated after completing the one year of probation without a violation.

After being continued without a finding for one year, Craig L. Richard, 42, of Nantucket had an October 19^th, 2024 charge of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol dismissed.