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5th American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/another-american-detained-turks-and-caicos-airport-ammunition-luggage/
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police told CBS News that “a visitor was arrested at the Howard Hamilton International Airport yesterday [May 13th] after ammunition was allegedly found during a routine security check.”
He is currently out on bail - though confined to the island while his case moves forward – and officials require him to check in at the Grace Bay Police Station every Tuesday and Thursday.
“I feel like, as a very honest mistake, that 12 years is absurd,” his wife, Jeriann Wenrich, told CBS News in April, who said she doesn’t want to see her 18-month-old son grow up without a dad.
That changed in February when a court order required even tourists to potentially face mandatory prison time in addition to paying a fine.
“U.S. gun owners may want to take the Turks and Caicos Islands’ actions into account before risking a trip to the Caribbean jurisdiction,” the National Rifle Association said in a news release Monday.
“Even U.S. gun owners confident in their ability to purge their luggage of any potential contraband may want to consider the wisdom of spending their money in a jurisdiction that would treat their countrymen in such a manner.”
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