Published:
David Hudak, a Canadian
national and president of High Energy Access
Tools, an anti-terrorism and police training
services company, was arrested Thursday,
according to a criminal complaint filed in
federal court Friday.
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."
The complaint, obtained by The
Albuquerque Tribune for a story in its
Saturday editions, said agents discovered the
missiles in 49 explosives crates, with each
crate containing 48 missiles which are worth
$23,040 apiece.
The complaint referred to the
missiles' official designation as the M141
Bunker Defeat Munition.
Hudak was arrested Thursday by
immigration agents at the company's training
facility, according to the complaint, which
also said Hudak was a Canadian national in the
United States illegally.
Hudak was charged with
possessing missiles that were not registered
to him in the National Firearms Registration
and Transfer Record.
Norm Cairns, spokesman for the
U.S. attorney's office in Albuquerque, told
the Tribune the investigation was ongoing but
declined to comment further.
Cairns didn't return a message
left by The Associated Press and no one
answered the telephone at HEAT on Saturday.
There was no telephone listing for Fish or
Hudak.
According to the complaint,
the military warheads are designed to defeat
light armored vehicles or bunkers and are
fired from shoulder-mounted infantry weapons.
No launching devices for the missiles were
found, according to the complaint.
Agents of the U.S. Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms searched company
facilities Thursday in Roswell and in Tinnie,
about 45 miles to the west.
HEAT is a defense contractor
and specialty training company that sells
"surgical breaching explosives,"
used usually in SWAT scenarios, among other
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