By Associated Press
Lafayette, LA – A federal grand jury in Louisiana has indicted three military contractors, including an employee based in Alabama, on charges they kidnapped a foreign national at gunpoint while working at an air base in Iraq.
The three employees of two Department of Defense contractors were freed on $100,000 bond after pleading not guilty to charges that include conspiracy, kidnapping, assault and witness tampering.
Three federal marshals had traveled to Kuwait to bring the contractors back to the U.S.
The indicted men were identified as Ronald Broussard, Jr., 42, of Lafayette, La.; Alan Beaty, 35, of Oneida, Tenn.; and Robert Bowlin, Sr., 40, of Brandon, Miss. Broussard and Beaty were employed by Special Operations Consulting Security Management Group of Minden, Nev. Bowlin worked for TAOS Industries of Huntsville, Ala.
The indictment accuses the men of conspiring to kidnap a man who worked at Camp Al-Asad Air Base to question him about the sale of liquor. The contractors allegedly threatened to harm the man if he reported the incident.