Indictments handed down related to strip club drug bust

LACONIA — A Belknap County grand jury has indicted four people for alleged violations of a variety state drug laws as a result of an undercover state drug task force investigation into activity at a Gilford strip club.

Kyme Locke, 37, of 11 West St. in Concord is accused of selling cocaine on five separate occasions to undercover police officer between the beginning of July through September 20.

Locke is also charge with one count of possession of cocaine which was alleged found either on her or under her control by police officers on October 18 — the night local police, members of the N.H. Drug Task Force, and two SWAT teams stormed the club.

Locke was one of three dancers arrested at the Mardi Gras Cabaret North during the raid.

Also indicted by the same grand jury was Jessica Sargent, 35, of 644 Central St. in Franklin for one count of selling oxycodone on July 19, for once count of conspiring to purchase and then resell an amount of marijuana to an under cover officer on July 6, one count of selling the marijuana to the undercover the same day, and a one count of selling oxycodone on July 15,

Sargent was arrested the night of the Oct. 18 raid at her home in Franklin by Franklin Police on a warrant. Club management has said she was no longer employed by the Mardi Gras on the night of the raid, having allegedly been fired some weeks earlier.

Scott Tripp, 39, of 65 Prospect St. in Franklin was indicted for two counts of selling oxycodone to undercover officers at two separate places in Laconia — once on June 16 and once on June 17 — to an undercover state narcotics agent on deals allegedly arranged in connection to the Mardi Gras.

He was also indicted for allegedly selling oxycodone on three separate occasions in June, July, and September to undercover narcotics agents while at the Mardi Gras.

Tripp was also arrested in Franklin by Franklin Police on the night of the Oct. 18 raid on a warrant issued by the drug task force.

A second man previously unidentified and not arrested the night of the raid is Kyle Ainsley, 22, of 66 Hill Road in Tilton.

Ainsley is facing three separate counts of selling marijuana to an undercover narcotics agents allegedly at the Mardi Gras, two counts of selling oxycodone to undercover agents and once count of conspiracy to sell marijuana.

He also faces two separate counts of taking a substantial step of accepting $200 and $130 respectively from an undercover agent to purchase oxycodone and one count of theft for just taking the undercover narcotic agents $330 and not making good on his end of the deal.