Civilian Navy employee charged with reporting false active shooter on military base

A civilian U.S. Department of Navy employee was charged with falsely reporting an active shooter at a New Jersey military base on Tuesday morning -- a hoax she allegedly carried out to "trauma bond" with her colleagues, according to a criminal complaint. On Tuesday, the official Facebook page for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst outside Trenton reported the base was on lockdown due to an active shooter. About an hour later, the lockdown was lifted -- and authorities later said the initial reports were unfounded. According to the criminal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, the civilian employee, Malika Brittingham, texted an unnamed individual at about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, that she allegedly heard five to six gunshots and that she, along with her colleagues, were hiding i