Virginia man detained in Turks and Caicos recalls moment he knew 'things were going sideways'
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Tyler Wenrich, a Virginia father, is speaking out before facing a potential 12-year prison sentence for having two stray bullets in his backpack in Turks and Caicos.
"It's scary and uncertain. I'm kind of in a lull right now because I don't have a [sentencing] date yet set. It's just a roller coaster," Wenrich, who has a wife and 1-year-old son at home, told Fox News Digital. "And it'll get that way again when we have a sentencing date and, and have to go into the courtroom to kind of figure out what my fate is going to be." "That's when I kind of knew things were going sideways." "I think some of our systems need to be in cahoots to have a better fail-safe in place…" Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
Wenrich, 31, and the other Americans who were arrested for ammunition possession on the islands must prove that they were arrested under extraordinary circumstances in order to get a lighter punishment.