Americans detained in Turks and Caicos are facing up to 12 years in prison for inadvertently having stray ammo in their bags in the Turks and Caicos airport.
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Americans are facing minimum 12-year prison sentences for unknowingly having ammunition or bullets in their luggage while traveling home from Turks and Caicos. Ryan Watson, a father of two from Oklahoma, and Tyler Wenrich, a father of a 1-year-old toddler from Virginia, were both arrested and detained this month after Turks and Caicos airport security found bullets in their luggage while they were returning from their vacations on the island.
thought that was an intimidation tactic at first,' Ryan Watson said of the potential 12-year sentence that was explained to him upon his arrest. Watson was released on $15,000 bail after the driver he hired for his weeklong vacation put up his vehicle 'as what they call surety,' Watson said. 'So it has to be a local that has an asset of the equivalent value of your bail. And so he put up his vehicle, which is his way to make a living. He put up the title of that vehicle in order for us to get bail,' Watson explained.
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