Davon Lamont Camp, 40, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced last week to 45 years in prison for stealing nearly $2 million from financial institutions, including Navy Federal Credit Union, and 26 women — many of them Navy Federal members he had romanced and then sexually assaulted, authorities said.
U.S. District Court Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen in Norfolk also ordered Camp to pay $1,752,356 in restitution, which includes $1.6 million to 26 women victims, some who went bankrupt, and more than $99,000 to Navy Federal.
On March 21, 2025, following a two-week trial, a jury returned a guilty verdict on 19 of 20 felony counts against Camp including nine bank fraud counts, which involved fraudulent auto loans for ghost or double-purchased cars from the $195 billion Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Va., and fraudulent personal loans from the $2.7 billion Bayport Federal Credit Union in Newport, Va. He also was convicted on five wire fraud counts, three of which involved a fraudulent loan extension while Camp was incarcerated, one aggravated identity theft count and four counts of false representation of a Social Security number. The jury found Camp not guilty on one count of false representation of a Social Security number.
Camp routinely met women while posing as a wealthy businessman who wore designer suits and drove luxury cars such as a Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. He claimed he made his money by flipping houses and showed some of the women screenshots of his bank accounts, purportedly showing he had hundreds of thousands of dollars. He also claimed to be a father of two children, but court testimony revealed he has 22 children with multiple women and owes more than $100,000 in back child support.
After developing romantic relationships with the women, Camp began assessing the women's creditworthiness, asking about their credit scores and their salaries.
Camp pursued U.S. Navy servicemembers because they had good credit, steady paychecks and were fearful of losing their security clearances, according to prosecutors.
He eventually told the women that his assets were frozen, usually due to a misunderstanding with the IRS, and asked them to take out car loans, personal loans or credit cards for him in their names, promising to repay them once his accounts were unfrozen.
Believing his lies, many women took out numerous loans or credit cards and handed over the cash or cards to him.
"In order to maximize the loan amounts the banks were willing to approve, he would often give the women falsified paystubs or direct them to inflate their income or put other false information in the loan applications," prosecutors said.
Much of the evidence at trial pertained to the vehicle loans.
Seven of the bank fraud counts and three of the wire fraud counts stemmed from fraudulent auto loans for luxury vehicles. The seven bank fraud counts arose from Camp obtaining six loans from Navy Federal in 2020 and 2022 for cars which were either "ghost purchases," meaning the car was never purchased at all and there was never any collateral securing the loan, or "double-financed" purchases, meaning Camp procured financing both from Navy Federal and from a Mercedes-Benz dealership for the same car, obtaining both the Navy Federal loan proceeds and the car.
What's more, after persuading the women to take out an auto loan at Navy Federal, Camp used a call-spoofing service to impersonate two local used-car dealerships, getting a code that enabled him to cash the auto loan checks. He funneled the auto loan checks through Towne Bank accounts he had women establish in the name of phony LLCs whose names closely resembled the auto dealerships.
The romantic relationships often became abusive when the women questioned Camp or hesitated to take out more loans for him.
He used physical, verbal and sexual abuse to control nearly 20 women and keep them trapped in his fraudulent scheme. Many of these women were allegedly raped repeatedly, according to prosecutors.
Court documents showed that at least two women filed police reports. One woman, identified as A.B., reported sexual assault in 2021 to Virginia Beach Police and to the United States Navy. In 2023, the Chesapeake Police Department issued an arrest warrant accusing Camp of raping another woman identified as D.M. Camp also allegedly threatened the woman's young son and her military career, according to authorities.
Prosecutors said Camp showed no remorse for his abuses of the women or for the financial crimes he committed.
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