They paid thousands to reach South Florida in a smuggling boat. It ended with all of them detained.

The three Turkish nationals told authorities they had traveled together from Turkey to the Bahamas. Once in the Bahamas, they searched for a captain of a vessel to take them to the United States, paying $5,000 to $7,000 each to be smuggled, according to the criminal complaint. One of them said he also paid the captain an extra $11,000 once he boarded the boat.