Josh Brecheen U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 2nd district | Official U.S. House Headshot
Josh Brecheen U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 2nd district | Official U.S. House Headshot
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Josh Brecheen issued a statement following the sentencing of Ryan Watson, one of five Americans recently detained by the Turks and Caicos government for inadvertently having ammunition in their luggage.
“I am glad to see that Ryan Watson will finally be allowed to return home to his family, but this whole fiasco should have never happened in the first place,” said Congressman Josh Brecheen. “The threat of a twelve-year prison sentence for accidentally leaving a few bullets in your bag is not justice. Thankfully, Turks and Caicos has now repealed this draconian law. No American should ever again have to go through what Ryan Watson and the four other detainees had to go through for making a simple mistake.”
In May, Congressman Brecheen attended a bipartisan, bicameral congressional delegation (CODEL) to Turks and Caicos (TCI), where members met with TCI government officials to discuss the detention of the five Americans.
Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) led the CODEL, which included Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Reps. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Michael Cloud (R-TX), and Bob Good (R-VA).
You can learn more about the CODEL here.
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