{"id":269219,"date":"2025-10-01T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269219\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:04:15","slug":"joint-base-mcguire-dix-lakehurst-active-shooter-hoaxer-arrested-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269219\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst active shooter hoaxer arrested \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has been arrested in connection with what authorities are calling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/new-jersey\/military-base-lockdown-mcguire-dix-lakehurst\/6398390\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">hoax active shooter situation <\/a>that locked down a joint base in New Jersey on Tuesday and sparked brief alarm within the community, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the incident at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced that a person had been taken into custody in the &#8220;active shooter hoax.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Habba did not identify the individual, but said they were a &#8220;civilian employee of the federal government.&#8221; Details on charges weren&#8217;t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A civilian employee of the federal government is in custody for conveying false information regarding an active shooter at Joint Base McGuire,&#8221; Habba said. &#8220;This kind of senseless fear-mongering and disruption will not be tolerated in my state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t clear what time the report came in about the possible shooter at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. In a Facebook post, military officials advised anyone outside to take cover and told those inside to remain there.<\/p>\n<p>The lockdown was lifted after the active shooter report was determined to be unfounded. <\/p>\n<p>Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is less than 20 miles southeast of Trenton. It&#8217;s one of the largest military installations in the country, with more than 42,000 active-duty service members, civilians and family members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been arrested in connection with what authorities are calling a hoax active shooter situation that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,401,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-269219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-jersey","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115299055338032533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}