Anonymous wrote:Turks and Caicos is threatening to jail two American men for 12 years for accidentally having bullets in their luggage at the airport. Doesn't seem like something that deserves 12 years. Why is the administration not working to free them?

An American tourist who was arrested in the Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this year for possessing ammunition was given a suspended sentence of 52 weeks on Friday and was expected to be released, a spokesperson posted to social media. The spokesperson for Bryan Hagerich of Pennsylvania initially said the sentence was 52 months long and then corrected the length of the sentence.

In a House of Assembly address, the islands’ Premier Washington Misick said, “The accusation of congressman (Guy Reschenthaler) against the government and people of the Turks and Caicos Islands are nothing more than diabolic falsehoods.”