Tyler Wenrich Turks and Caicos

Tyler Wenrich Turks and Caicos

From Tyler Wenrich

We are urgently asking for help for Tyler Wenrich and his family. Tyler has been arrested in Turks and Caicos and is facing 12 years in a foreign prison.

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We are asking for your help for Tyler Wenrich who is being detained in a foreign country facing 12 years in prison for 2 stray rounds of ammunition found in the bottom of his backpack.

Tyler serves a rural Virginia community as a paramedic and is a family man and a father of a 1 ½ year old.  Tyler was traveling to Grand Turk with his friends for a bachelor party.  Tyler flew from Virginia to Florida where he boarded a Royal Caribbean cruise ship with no issue and arrived at Grand Turk on Saturday 4/20.  After spending time on the island, upon reboarding the ship, customs found two stray 9mm rounds of ammunition in the bottom of his backpack unknowingly left there from a past target shooting event.  The ammunition was not detected by the TSA when he went through security at the Richmond Virginia airport nor was it detected when he went through security while boarding the Royal Caribbean ship.

Tyler is facing at a MINIMUM, an excessively harsh and unimaginable sentence of 12 years in the Turks and Caicos prison for an unintentional, innocent mistake.

Tyler and his family urgently need your help covering escalating legal costs and necessities. We are reaching out for donations from our friends, our family, the community he serves, and any person concerned about US citizens who find themselves in a nightmarish situation such as this.  A donation of any size will be immensely appreciated and will help in supporting Tyler and his family in this extremely difficult time.  We pray for Tyler and his family for strength, safety and his eventual return to the United States.

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