AND WE’LL TALK ALL ABOUT THAT COMING UP HERE IN A FEW MINUTES. ALL RIGHT JONATHAN, THANK YOU. AND EDMOND MAN BEING HELD IN TURKS AND CAICOS ON AN AMMUNITION CHARGE COULD BE COMING HOME TONIGHT. RYAN WATSON WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED IN APRIL FOR HAVING AMMUNITION IN HIS BAG WHILE LEAVING THE ISLAND. HIS SENTENCING IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. COCO IS ANDY WEBER JOINING US FROM WILL ROGERS WORLD AIRPORT, WHERE WATSON COULD BE RETURNING HOME TO REUNITE WITH HIS FAMILY TODAY. ANDY, THE BRITISH TERRITORY ANNOUNCING IT WOULD BE REVISING THIS FIREARMS LAW AFTER FIVE AMERICANS ACCIDENTALLY BROUGHT AMMUNITION INTO THE ISLAND TERRITORY. THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCING THEY WOULD REDUCE THEIR 12 YEAR MAXIMUM PRISON SENTENCE TO AS LOW AS A FINE. THIS COMES AFTER US LAWMAKERS TRAVELED TO THE TERRITORY A FEW WEEKS BACK, ASKING FOR THE CHARGES AGAINST THE AMERICANS TO BE DROPPED. OKLAHOMA SENATOR MARKWAYNE MULLIN, WHO WAS PART OF THAT DELEGATION, CELEBRATED THE CHANGE TO THE TERRITORY’S FIREARMS LAW, CALLING IT WELL INTENTIONED BUT DEEPLY FLAWED. EDMOND NATIVE RYAN WATSON IS ONE OF THE FIVE AMERICANS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS FOR CARRYING AMMUNITION. WATSON’S FAMILY SAYS THEY HOPE HE WILL BE RELEASED FOLLOWING HIS SENTENCING THIS MORNING. I FEEL GOOD, UM, I FEEL LIKE WE MADE A GOOD ARGUMENT FOR EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. I UNDERSTOOD THAT THE PROSECUTION IS WAS PURSUING. THAT THERE’D BE NO EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES FOUND IN THE CASE. I JUST PRAY THAT THAT THERE ARE WATSON’S FAMILY SAYS IF HE IS RELEASED FOLLOWING THAT SENTENCING HEARING, THEY HOPE TO HAVE HIM BACK HERE IN OKLAHOMA AT WILL ROGERS BY TEN THIS EVENING, REPORTI
Edmond man heading home after sentencing for Turks and Caicos ammunition charge
A family source told KOCO 5 that they will pay the fine, leave the island chain and be back in Oklahoma City and be reunited with his wife and two children late Friday night
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Updated: 11:17 AM CDT Jun 21, 2024
An Oklahoma man who has been held in Turks and Caicos since April on ammunition charges has been sentenced and will head home on Friday.Ryan Watson, of Edmond, received a 13-week sentence suspended to nine months and will have to pay a $2,000 fine. A family source told KOCO 5 that they will pay the fine, leave the island chain and be back in Oklahoma City and reunited with his wife and two children late Friday night.Watson had been held in Turks and Caicos for about two months after he was arrested and charged for having ammunition in his bag. He has said since his arrest that he didn't know the ammunition was still in his bag from a previous hunting trip.The Oklahoman was among five Americans who recently accidentally brought ammunition into Turks and Caicos.The territory's government recently announced it would drop its 12-year mandatory minimum sentence for bringing guns or ammunition. Penalties could now be as low as a fine."I feel good. I feel like we made a good argument for exceptional circumstances. I understood the prosecution was pursuing there be no exceptional circumstances down to the case. I just pray that there are," Watson said before Friday's sentencing.Top Headlines 1 dead after multi-vehicle crash in southwest Oklahoma City FAA investigating after Southwest Airlines plane flew so low to the ground it woke up Yukon residents Semitrailer rollover briefly shuts down ramp from westbound I-240 to southbound I-44 in SW OKC OHP: 6-year-old girl killed in Thursday wreck Support group provides safe space for older members of LGBTQ community
An Oklahoma man who has been held in Turks and Caicos since April on ammunition charges has been sentenced and will head home on Friday.
Ryan Watson, of Edmond, received a 13-week sentence suspended to nine months and will have to pay a $2,000 fine. A family source told KOCO 5 that they will pay the fine, leave the island chain and be back in Oklahoma City and reunited with his wife and two children late Friday night.
Watson had been held in Turks and Caicos for about two months after he was arrested and charged for having ammunition in his bag. He has said since his arrest that he didn't know the ammunition was still in his bag from a previous hunting trip.
The Oklahoman was among five Americans who recently accidentally brought ammunition into Turks and Caicos.
The territory's government recently announced it would drop its 12-year mandatory minimum sentence for bringing guns or ammunition. Penalties could now be as low as a fine.
"I feel good. I feel like we made a good argument for exceptional circumstances. I understood the prosecution was pursuing there be no exceptional circumstances down to the case. I just pray that there are," Watson said before Friday's sentencing.
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