URGENT NEED for Tyler Wenrich detained in Turks and Caicos

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 issues and arrived at Grand Turk on Saturday 4/20. After spending time on the island, upon reboarding the ship, Royal Caribbean security found two stray 9mm rounds of ammunition in the bottom of his backpack unknowingly left there from a past target shooting event. Royal Caribbean then removed Tyler from the ship and turned him over to the local authorities. 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 port security when initially boarding the Royal Caribbean ship.

Tyler is facing at a MINIMUM, an excessively harsh, cruel, and unimaginable sentence of a minimum 12 years in the Turks and Caicos prison for an unintentional, innocent mistake. The Turks and Caicos is the only island in the Caribbean with laws such as this.

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 trapped 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.