In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Security Chief Charged for Missiles
Josey1
Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
Security Chief Charged for Missiles
Sunday, August 18, 2002
ROSWELL, N.M. - It's official: There were unidentified flying objects in Roswell, N.M.
But after identifying them as 2,352 small military anti-tank missiles, federal authorities have arrested the president of a counterterrorism consulting firm.
David Hudak, a Canadian national and president of High Energy Access Tools, was charged on Thursday with possessing missiles not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, according to a federal complaint filed Friday.
"Under the plain language of the criminal complaint ... at this time this is a licensing and regulation issue, not a terrorism issue," Assistant U.S. Attorney Norm Cairns said.
According to the federal complaint, Hudak was also in the country illegally and was arrested by immigration officials.
Investigators also found 4,000 pounds of explosives at HEAT, an anti-terrorism and police training company that was conducting classes for students from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, said Tom Mangan, a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent.
Cairns said the students are not suspected of any wrongdoing.
"None of those guys were arrested or charged with anything," Cairns said late Saturday.
HEAT is a defense contractor and specialty training company that sells "surgical breaching explosives," used usually in SWAT scenarios, among other things.
Frank Fish, director of security for HEAT, said after the arrest that the company had believed it was licensed to have appropriate equipment to train U.S. allies and export them to allied nations, but later found out the permit was not filed. He did not specifically mention the missiles.
Fish also said the company invited agencies to inspect the Roswell and Tinnie sites because HEAT wanted to be sure it was compliant.
"We've been open to every federal agency that could have anything to do with anything about what we do for a living, from the FBI, ATF, Department of State, everybody," Fish told the Roswell Daily Record. "We contacted everybody, saying please come on down."
Hudak's wife, Leslie, reached in Vancouver, B.C., said her husband's plight came about partly because three employees had been dismissed and one sought revenge.
"We've always considered ourselves to be on the right side of the law," she told BCTV and KRQE-TV in Albuquerque.
The ATF agents were summoned for a search of HEAT facilities in Roswell and Tinnie on Thursday and were there "basically to handle all the explosives that were taken into custody," Mangan said Saturday.
The complaint, obtained by The Albuquerque Tribune for a story in Saturday editions, said agents discovered the missiles in 49 explosives crates, with each crate containing 48 warheads worth $23,040 apiece.
The complaint said the missile was known as the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition, a warhead designed to defeat light armored vehicles or bunkers and fired from shoulder-mounted infantry weapons. No launchers for the warheads were found, the complaint said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60674,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Sunday, August 18, 2002
ROSWELL, N.M. - It's official: There were unidentified flying objects in Roswell, N.M.
But after identifying them as 2,352 small military anti-tank missiles, federal authorities have arrested the president of a counterterrorism consulting firm.
David Hudak, a Canadian national and president of High Energy Access Tools, was charged on Thursday with possessing missiles not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, according to a federal complaint filed Friday.
"Under the plain language of the criminal complaint ... at this time this is a licensing and regulation issue, not a terrorism issue," Assistant U.S. Attorney Norm Cairns said.
According to the federal complaint, Hudak was also in the country illegally and was arrested by immigration officials.
Investigators also found 4,000 pounds of explosives at HEAT, an anti-terrorism and police training company that was conducting classes for students from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, said Tom Mangan, a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent.
Cairns said the students are not suspected of any wrongdoing.
"None of those guys were arrested or charged with anything," Cairns said late Saturday.
HEAT is a defense contractor and specialty training company that sells "surgical breaching explosives," used usually in SWAT scenarios, among other things.
Frank Fish, director of security for HEAT, said after the arrest that the company had believed it was licensed to have appropriate equipment to train U.S. allies and export them to allied nations, but later found out the permit was not filed. He did not specifically mention the missiles.
Fish also said the company invited agencies to inspect the Roswell and Tinnie sites because HEAT wanted to be sure it was compliant.
"We've been open to every federal agency that could have anything to do with anything about what we do for a living, from the FBI, ATF, Department of State, everybody," Fish told the Roswell Daily Record. "We contacted everybody, saying please come on down."
Hudak's wife, Leslie, reached in Vancouver, B.C., said her husband's plight came about partly because three employees had been dismissed and one sought revenge.
"We've always considered ourselves to be on the right side of the law," she told BCTV and KRQE-TV in Albuquerque.
The ATF agents were summoned for a search of HEAT facilities in Roswell and Tinnie on Thursday and were there "basically to handle all the explosives that were taken into custody," Mangan said Saturday.
The complaint, obtained by The Albuquerque Tribune for a story in Saturday editions, said agents discovered the missiles in 49 explosives crates, with each crate containing 48 warheads worth $23,040 apiece.
The complaint said the missile was known as the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition, a warhead designed to defeat light armored vehicles or bunkers and fired from shoulder-mounted infantry weapons. No launchers for the warheads were found, the complaint said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60674,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878