Liveaboard People Smuggler With Delusions of Grandeur Gets 2 1/2 Years in Prison

Caught With 31 Migrants Down Below

Jan 15, 2025

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This is how Derek Campton saw the future, as expressed in a Facebook illustration he posted a few years ago.

A liveaboard sailor busted for trying to import a boatload of Haitians into the U.S. now has plenty of time to reconsider his career choices. Instead of “swimming in cash in 2025,” Florida man Derek Campton is serving a 30-month sentence in federa…

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