Detained Dad bristles at Turks & Caicos’ notion that he was on ‘extended vacation’

COCKBURN TOWN — An American man recently freed after being detained for more than 100 days in Turks and Caicos after ammunition was found in his luggage slammed remarks describing his ordeal as an “extended vacation.”

Bryan Hagerich, 39, said Monday on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live” that the Turks and Caicos tourism board told a congressional delegation his detainment was “an extended vacation.”

“Being separated from my family for three and a half months,” Hagerich said, is “not what I call an extended vacation.”

Hagerich, a father of two from Pennsylvania, received a 52-week suspended sentence and a $6,700 fine after pleading guilty to possession of ammunition charge last week. He spent eight days in jail before posting bail.

Hagerich was on vacation with his wife and their two young children when stray hunting ammunition was discovered in his luggage in February.