Air Force Vet, Brother Sentenced To Jail In Dubai After Reportedly Being ‘Drugged’ At Yacht Party

An Air Force veteran and his brother were sentenced to jail in the United Arab Emirates last week after reportedly being “drugged” during a yacht party.

Joseph and Joshua Lopez were convicted of alcohol consumption and sentenced to a month in prison in Dubai due to the supposed drugging, according to Detained in Dubai (DID), a legal organization that aims to help foreign nationals imprisoned in the UAE. The brothers could see their prison sentence lengthened even further due to pending charges of “damaging government property and assaulting an officer” related to the incident on the yacht.

“They were drugged by locals after being asked to a yacht party by a local resident,” DID CEO Radha Stirling wrote in a press release on the organization’s website calling for the brothers’ release. “They were given one drink onboard the yacht and the next thing they remember is being taken away by plain clothed police officers in an unmarked vehicle.”

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The brothers had traveled to the UAE on May 25 in a bid to capture social media content for Joseph, who has since become a social media influencer after leaving the Air Force and is the current title holder of the “Mister Louisiana” pageant, the New York Post