A Turks and Caicos judge on Friday morning issued a suspended 52-month sentence to Bryan Hagerich, a Pennsylvania dad of two and former pro baseball player who pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition.
A Turks and Caicos judge on Friday morning issued a suspended 52-month sentence to Bryan Hagerich, a Pennsylvania dad of two and former pro baseball player who pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition on the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).
Hagerich, 39, is one of five Americans arrested and detained on the islands since February for having stray ammunition in their luggage — a crime punishable by up to 12 years in TCI.
The other Americans include Ryan Watson, 40, of Oklahoma, Sharitta Grier, 45, of Florida; Tyler Wenrich, 31, of Virginia; and Michael Lee Evans, 72, of Texas.
“He will be released shortly,” Hagerich’s spokesperson, Jonathan Franks, said in a Friday tweet.
Hagerich was also ordered to pay a $6,500 fine.
“From the day that I was arrested, the end goal was to get off the island and go home to my family. To think that that day is potentially tomorrow, it’s every emotion under the sun,” Hagerich told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “There’s obviously a lot of anxiety. There [are] a lot of prayers … from families, friends, folks we don’t even know across the world right now, to hopefully bring that outcome.”
He added that he and his attorneys have “made a very, very strong case” in his defense after he pleaded guilty.
Hagerich, Watson and Grier have been living in the same condo as they await their respective fates on the island.
“We’re all a support system for one another. You know, it’s a big family,” Watson said. He later described their trio as being “like two brothers and a sister.
