First Came the Tip. Then Cops Used Radar To Stalk a People-Smuggling Cruiser

Sailor Dude Used a Motoryacht Like a Bus, Faces 10 Years

For us, the tiny tourist island of Bimini is just a convenient place to clear into the Bahamas. One night there, and we’re underway again, enroute to the Exumas before the next cruise ship can pull in. Like the happy campers of Carnival, we come and go, oblivious to the island’s big secret.

Moving contraband is in Bimini’s DNA—rum in 1930s, weed in the 1…