'An honest mistake': Florida woman arrested in Turks and Caicos over ammunition
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Sharitta Shinese Grier is the fifth American arrested on possession of ammunition charges in Turks and Caicos in recent months. WBTS' Leslie Gaydos reports.
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Empty your bags & suitcases completely before packing your luggage. This can’t keep happening!
And you should know better not to give after the fact I told you so advice
@@jsanf44373 it’s a general statement. Learn to use critical thinking skills.
@@ShebaPhD if you had any you wouldn't be wagging your finger
@@jsanf44373 my intellect refuses to allow me to continue to go back and forth with a fool. Take care 🫡💯
@@ShebaPhD Then stop talking to yourself
You dropped the ball on yourself. Blaming the TSA is lame.
They always blaming someone else.
Right? TSA doesn't pack your luggage. YOU should have found it.
definitely a stupid mistake, but it wasn’t criminally nefarious. if the standard is 12 years in prison for making a stupid mistake ( with no criminal intent) then 75 percent of america would be locked up
if a terrorist brought on a gun aboard a plane & shot the pilots...you still blaming the terrorists exclusively not TSA??? Stop
@@lynnebarrett9912 if a terrorist brought on a gun aboard a plane & shot the pilots...you still blaming the terrorists exclusively& not TSA??? Stop
Imagine blaming someone else for carelessness 🤦🏽♂️. People are INSANE! So, according to her it was an innocent mistake, but on TSA they dropped the ball 🤦🏽♂️
Don’t blame TSA , You should always triple check your luggage before traveling.
Is she blaming TSA for her carrying something illegally into another country? This woman has no accountability and I hope the court sees that.
Can we say narcissist...😮
Blaming TSA for your own failures to remove ammunition?!
It's a shared responsibility. Her tax dollars (yours & mine) do pay the TSA salaries to locate bullets instead of Johnson & Johnson.
TSA has the responsibility of finding those out before but nowadays everybody is focusing in the woke trash instead while missing what really counts.
@@jaunenito Wrong!!! Quit blaming other people TSA or whoever. It's her fault and the rest need to be in jail for 10 years. There's been people go to jail for years for a bag of coke or weed.
There are 5 people that have traveled from USA also left ammunition in their luggage. So, don't blame her this is oversight check luggage pockets. 1 man released today
@@2311ification Can you read? I said "SHARED" Based your low logic if a terrorist brought on a gun aboard a plane & shot the pilots...you still blaming the terrorists exclusively??? Stop
Getting locked up for two bullets is ridiculous and extremely harsh but TSA cannot be blamed... Grownups are responsible for checking their own luggage.
I AGREE 100% she's to blame; however, if the TSA can't locate bullets in a bag on a plane I'm flying on, that's a major problem. They are an important piece of the overall safety of flying. She could've been a terrorist, those bullets could've been explosives. No way TSA cannot be blamed as well.
Jeez how many people are there putting ammo in their luggage these days?
I own firearms and I just dont understand how all of these people with loose ammo in their travel bags keep blaming the TSA!? I dont keep loose ammo anywhere but maybe a drawer in my home. I certainly dont travel with my range bag 🙄
fake excuses
When I was in school another kid got his dads ammo and fired it with a clamp and tools like a hammer and chisel or something. Hence why it should be locked up.
Lotsa undisciplined shooters. My late hubs was a cop and counted his ammo rounds when he unloaded his duty pistol and put gear away. Paranoid but always aware
People lack accountability. I don't feel sorry for her. God bless her children. Their mom irresponsibility caused her own consequences.
@@jhowardsupporter I agree with you there, but in my case I dont have kids so no grandchildren either
No, ma'am. TSA did not fail you. You failed TSA.
This is sad, but this is no one's fault but yours.
And she gonna put god in this. I can tell she doesn’t read the Bible. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power.
@@jouhsagreen1627 amen
@@jouhsagreen1627 Jesus was put on the cross by the government. The Romans too I believe.
@@jhowardsupporter if that verse doesn’t actually show. Then I guess I’m blind
I hope all the people condemning her. realize that she made a honest mistake.
I will pray that they all gets home
Entitled Americans do not even realize the rest of the world are not happy about American's love of guns. And I do not blame the rest of the world for being afraid of our preoccupation with guns.
FYI: Your range bag SHOULD NOT be your CARRY ON BAG. A classic YOU PROBLEM
Exactly
@@dustymcdust825You are the only one I saw even mention that specific bag for that specific purpose.
In fairness, this wasn't her 'range bag". She carries since she is a store manager & needs protection while working in that capacity. Makes sense that she might have a loose round or two in the bottom of the bag she carries on a daily basis. I have a range bag, but I also carry my fire arm in a day bag as well. But I don't use it as a carry on neither.
@@RMBlake007 So they just fell out of the magazine into her purse? That's like saying a bank manager always walks around with cash in case somebody needs to break a large bill.
Facts
Why does this keep happening? Check your bags. I live in Denver, you better believe I check everything before I get on a plane
Ignorant, arrogant, gun nuts....
You would think TSA catches everything 🫤🙄
@@kravekhaleel6180 you would think tourists would do a little due dilligence, but why?
I don't own a gun, but jeez you can only do so much. No matter how much you clean everything out of your bag, I've found things that I could not believe I left behind
@@akioyam3 Well you have bad habits. Lucky you don't own a gun. When i travel i'd clean a bag out, thourghly to make sure you don' bring home any hitchiking bugs or seeds. KNOW brfore you go. Don't be a -tourist- Turkey, be a traveler. If TSA can find it you should be able to.
It’s not illegal to carry bullets in the US but it’s illegal in foreign countries. Do you research.
Not accountability. Still blames someone else.
Typical Keisha behavior, that being said Turks and Caicos stop being petty, y'all economy depends on the US.
@@derricklangford4725Turks and Caicos is a British territory. Technically, anything they need comes from Great Britain.
When the state department travel advisory says don't go to this place, there is probably a pretty good reason.
You all want there to be like Chicago
@@greg80331 No, it's just another crap hole island with abusive laws written by thugs with the goal of ripping off tourist.
12 year sentence is insane!
12 yr sentence is a deterrent. Don't break the law if you don't like the sentence
Not checking what's in your bag before you travel to another country is insane.
@HassempyaHillbillyAZ Nope. It's a deterrent. These people thinks they can go to a small island and break the law. They lucky it's not in the middle east where they would be deleted.
The United Kingdom has very stiff laws on guns and ammunition, Turks and Caicos is no different, it's still a British Territory. She'd have gotten 30 to life in other countries.
U dropped the ball! Not TSA! CHECK YOUR LUGGAGE
Know the law…..5 people did not. You have been warned. Heed the warning!
💯
Why do you have loose ammo floating around ...?????? MA'AM
That part!!!
This is incredible how forgetting to check everything in your bag can cause your entire life to change. I don’t own a gun/ammunition but I can imagine myself putting a house key in a couple of bags in case I ever lock myself out of my home then forgetting the key is in there till months later. Anyways, I’m glad this lady had other Americans there to support her. I hope they all get pardoned and that people stop making this mistake of carrying guns or ammunition overseas.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
you don't have an original bone in your body
Are we sure that they're not planting that stuff there
Yes, we are sure, at least everyone who has actually listened.
I thought this at first but then all of the people arrested admitted to having guys and using those luggage before .
I thought the same thing initially.
100% her fault, but blames the airport screeners for dropping the ball. Has she not seen the news stories circulating for years about things that make it through those screenings because it's an imperfect system & people playing find Waldo on the screens are going to miss things. Her bag she packed, her mistake, stop blaming others.
I really appreciate how real you are. The solutions are always so easy to me. Take responsibility for your actions and stop expecting others to do for you what you yourself are not willing to do for you. Absorb the consequences and move on!
@HassempyaHillbillyAZ There was ammunition found in her bag, not a firearm.
If you take full responsibility T&C will most likely fine you for each bullet & court fees with a suspended sentence. Own it 100% and you go home.
"They" dropped the ball?No one else?
The sad part is that even after they got together that didn’t make any of them any smarter.
Why you using the same bag for traveling that you’re using for a firearm?! First problem right there. Second problem is her lack of accountability and trying to put the blame on TSA. She wild and delulu. 😅😂 I don’t feel bad for these people. You should know the laws of any country you are entering. 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Why are yall carrying bullets in luggage and not the gun bags. Why are yall not looking through your whole luggage
The only person responsible for what’s in their luggage is the one who packed it and nobody else! You can’t tell me people traveling these days don’t know what they can and can not carry onto a plane.
How you blame TSA for this? Girl check your luggage next time.
People know bullets can fire without being loaded in a gun, right?
@@jsanf44373 good luck facing the future.
A bullet is the projectile that is fired out of the shell. To answer your question, no, shells cannot just fire on their own.
@@User357-ts5do what a joke.
You have reading comprehension issues.
Yes: bullets can be fired without being loaded in a gun.
I never mentioned anything about shells.
@@User357-ts5do you have reading comprehension issues.
Bullets can be fired without guns.
Never throw one in a fire, or overheat it.
@@al-bot1094 ah yes, have to make sure there’s no shells in my carry on before I throw it in the fire on the cruise ship. It must be really hard living in the land of make-believe.
Sounds like EXCUSES to me. You carry a gun you better know where ALL your bullets are. "Poorly Educated" should not be allowed to have a gun.
Maybe CLEAN your bag once and a while?
@HassempyaHillbillyAZ So many scared/scarey people running around with guns who shouldn't be. half of them with badges
So she basically broke US and T&C laws by having ammo in her carry-on instead of her "checked" luggage.
Praying for ALL OF YOU 🙏🙏😭😭
I 100% believe in 2a, but that's for America. We see people coming into America, not following our laws, and most of the time, there's no penalty. I wish laws meant something in America the way laws mean something in T&C.
They make a golf bag, a gym bag, a reusable grocery bag, a laundry bag, a luggage bag & a range bag. They only have 2 things in common. All are bags, all have a different purpose.
Exactly, my range bag is just for trips to the range and nothing else.
Big difference between two bullets and two rounds. Blame TSA? Just .blame your own stupidity. If you're planning to pretend you don't know what's in your suitcase, stay home. .
Turks and Caicos are some pretty small islands. It’d be unfortunate for all of their ports to get blockaded until they drop all the BS charges and release these Americans who clearly had no wrong intentions…
Carrying ammunitions while traveling? that’s sus and obvi wrong.
The world is not the US playground. I've been just about everywhere, and laws are laws. You abide or do time. Sending lawmakers there over the last 2 days only made things worse for those charged.
Wow. On another page, the white guy is getting all the sympathy, support, and understanding when the same thing happened to him. People talking about boycotting Turks
and on and on. Either it's sexists, racist, or both that this woman is condemned, but the guy get the crocodile tears, empathy and sympathy. Same island,
same crime, same excuse given, totally different reaction in the posts.
Being arrested over two bullets is ridiculous. Praying for this woman.
The US needs to issue a serious travel warning ‼️
"Excuse me ma'am, but I need that Jergens & Body Armor spray! You can keep the bullets."
years in prison for 2 bullets is an outrage.
I triple check my luggage every vacation just to make sure I have everything I need. Why do people put ammunition in their luggage anyway? This is the second case I have heard about people flying with Amno!! Get a gun box to keep your gun and ammunition people!!!
Who is even traveling around with ammunition anyway?
If you think she's guilty, you lose the right to complain about Russia
All I hear these people saying is they don't keep track of where their ammunition is. Or they forgot it was there. Man, when you have a part of something that can cause serious harm you'd better be counting the bullets each night to make sure none go missing. If they are telling the truth about their side of the story then they are incredibly naive to not know where their ammo is at all times.
They putting those rounds in American bags . Its a $ thing. They'll be freed, if they felt they were dangerous the situation would be different.
It shows how our security here sucks,yes our TSA should have caught it.
How can people NOT KNOW that there are bullets in the bags!
Next time?
Check you stuff FIRST!!
Don't expect other countries to care.
Most guns are Automatic. You use Clips. Mags. Why loose cartridges.
This woman deserves zero sympathy and has zero accountability.
exactly, that's how i feel about the other Americans stuck over there.
Speak for yourself
Americans thinking the rest of the world should allow them the same freedoms as the U.S. 😂
Do gun owner's check and / or count their weapon rounds when carrying or storing? Should she have discovered the 2 missing rounds when storing the weapon or when she removed it from the bag?
😮😢😮😢more idiots running around with ammo....
And that’s the thing the US always blaming someone else for their mistakes.
This sounds fishy too many saying same thing
Spare me, "They dropped the ball"....huh, at what point does she acknowledge the role she played in her predicament...if we learned anything from the Brittany Griner saga, it's check your bags b4 heading to the airport!!
That’s not a honest mistake you all love too much guns .
You get pulled over by police in America the first thing they asking you is do you have guns.
And know this that it’s not every country loves gun like you Americans does.
If we had a president had any guts he would tell their present that please let go of my citizens if 3 civilians with ammo are going to be less of a problem then a whole bunch of Marines on your beaches and they'll be carrying more than just ammo
Lesson buy new luggage if your traveling to the islands
Traveling with bullets IS NOT against TSA regulations Or an empty gun. The bullet and gun can’t be together. Good luck 🍀
Accountability a woman’s kryptonite
I spotted the in-cel
Why do people carry bullets in their baggage? Too lazy to clean out their baggage knowing she had carried bullets in there before. Such an entitled adult child this woman is.
Why do you have lose bullets?
Again yalls attitudes shifted real quick in between individuals. Keep that same energy with yalls excuses for everyone. Or just admit your racist and keep it moving
🎯💯🎯💯 Right. I say let her pay her $6,700 fine like ole boy and send her home.
Are these people being framed? That's careless as gun owners.
*12 Years a Slave: the 21st Century Edition.*
TSA is failing everyone if they let these through. It is there job to ensure this never got on any plane. She can't have them do the time, but they need to improve. She wont win a lawsuit, because she can't prove they missed them. She could have gotten them in Turks.
How did our TSA didn't catch those bullets before they left USA?
TSA is sloppy or................
So you keep a gun in that bag for protection. . . Do you also keep loose rounds in your pockets to reload? How did you get loose rounds in your bag if it’s just to carry that gun? Bullets in the magazine magazine in the gun. She’s lying.
What is with all these people having bullets in luggage? Ive never had bullets in luggage
Never allow other to pack your travelling bags. Pack it yourself.
Actually make sure your bags are completely cleaned out first BEFORE you travel to another country. You yourself dropped the ball
So typical to blame someone for else for something you did.
12 years is ridiculous
The guy from Pennsylvania was released days ago
Why is bullets in a bag for vacation instead of a lock box! Its her fault nobody else's
🤔 a Guy From Pittsburgh and Now 🤔 Her 🤔 They Both Mysteriously AMMO Found In Luggage 😕🙄 Sound's Like a Set-Up
Third story with same stupid excuse.
You should always check and clean your luggage before going anywhere, even to another State, but this is beyond ridiculous. Just confiscate it and move on, nobody is smuggling ammunition into any country a couple rounds of a random caliber at a time and paying the airfare to do it. If they were serious about moving ammo, they'd use a boat and bring a lot of weapons and ammunition, then I could understand putting someone in prison for bringing in weapons if that is not allowed.
Sharitta Shinese should have shown some accountability!
God has a plan and purpose in this. It is clear! Crystal clear. ❤
Miss, you drop the ball on yourself!! Take accountability
I’m sure all the people being detained are law abiding citizens of (Your Country) but when someone travels abroad to another country respect the laws in place. You may not like it but it’s there laws and they are a sovereign country and they need that respect as well. If a foreign national were to break the law here in these United States they would be held accountable and ask questions later!!!
They didn't fail her she failed herself people are quick to blame someone else.
Too bad.
oh i ibet you feel diff about the yt ppl locked up there....
People check your luggage before you pack and leave the country. Didn’t Brittany teach the USA?
Who just has loose bullets lying around…get a grip lady…the fake tears…I cannot😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"I started praying!" LOL!!!🤣🤣🤣
People please check your luggage before you travel to Turks & Caicos.
You see all my gun toting, gun loving friends - every country has rules and laws. They are NOT your rules and laws! When you travel, know the mores, the rules, the laws, what not to do. You Will Eventually Learn!
Carelessness on her part
And when she cheats she blames the temptation. 🤣
People have right to choose stay extra time in Turks and Caicos. Most people have thing they wanna do, get home. 12 year a choice, if you warn about it in news, new law in T and C. How someone lose track of bullet? Scary. Turks and Caicos had enough with scary toowist.
This is like the 3rd story I heard like there were people pass TSA but once leaving Turks they fine “bullets” hummmmm
Lady, you snooze, you lose!
@HassempyaHillbillyAZ good for them. . . but if TSA has to find your firearms and ammunition, it is a fail on the part of the person who packed their luggage at home.
@HassempyaHillbillyAZ still, it is NOT TSA’s responsibility to pack your luggage! If they fined people for carrying ammunition or firearms in their luggage, that would help put the responsibility where it belongs.