By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 10 mins ago

LAKEHURST, N.J. – Something that sounded like gunfire and a delivery driver with a gun led to a one-hour lockdown at a Navy base Monday. A base official said there were no injuries and no real danger.

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst spokeswoman Angel Lopez said security concerns were raised at around 9:30 a.m. at two different base entrances — the base's main gate and the commercial-traffic gate for the part of the installation once known as the Lakehurst Naval Engineering Station.

At the commercial entrance, someone reported hearing gunfire. At about the same time, guards were questioning a delivery driver who was trying to enter through the main gate.

Most drivers who regularly make deliveries know to go to the commercial gate, but this one didn't, Lopez said. What's more, when guards asked the driver if he had any weapons, he said he did.

The man possessed the gun legally but was cited for trying to bring it on base and was released later Monday morning, Lopez said. She said she did not have the driver's name.

Meanwhile, the search for someone who had fired shots at the commercial gate turned up nothing.

Because the two things happened at the same time, base security forces called for a lockdown, Lopez said. For about an hour, no vehicles could get in or out of the naval center and people on base had to stay in their buildings.

She said the base was back to normal by 11 a.m., but the investigation into what sounded like gunfire continued.

Last year, the Army's Fort Dix, McGuire Air Force Base and Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station were merged to make the military's first three-branch base. The 65-square-mile combined base stretches through farmland and forests in central New Jersey.

Lakehurst is perhaps best known as the spot where the airship Hindenberg exploded in 1937.

More recently, federal authorities said it was a target being considered by a group of men from the Philadelphia area who were convicted in 2008 of plotting to kill military personnel. No attack was carried out in that case.

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Associated Press writer Shawn Marsh in Trenton, N.J., contributed to this report.

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Ryan Earl McCann, 20, was sentenced to eight years in prison for exploiting young girls over the Internet.

McCann ran a bogus online chat company called "Talen's Playground," where he told the girls he would pay them thousands to commit sex acts in front of their web cams. Photos were also used to coerce the girls.

Ryan Earl McCann left a "trail of scarred and emotionally fragile young women," said Ontario Court Justice Celynne Dorval .

"It is clear that it is at the sense of control generated by these offences to which the defendant is addicted. The offences are predatory," added Justice Dorval.
The female victims, aged 14 to 21, were recruited from online social networking sites and chat programs such as Facebook and MSN for friendly talks that eventually turned ugly. There were 19 named complainants, and three more who did not want to come forward. Ten of the girls were under 16.

The Kanata man pleaded guilty earlier this month to 26 charges in total, including extorting young girls and women to make pornographic videos, producing child pornography, invitation to sexual touching, harassment and uttering death threats.

The guilty plea means there will not be a trial, and the girls who did come forward will not have to give full accounts.

The verdict was also affected by the fact that McCann used special networking and hacked into the girls' facebook sites, as well.

McCann can also no longer contact anyone under 16 using a computer.

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Here's a story from my hometown, aka the Land of the World's Stupidest Criminals:

Police arrested Steve Cox, 35, after a 40-mile chase following a traffic stop. Police put a spiked stick across the road that blew out all of his tires, but he kept going, even after a tire ran off the rim, and finally stopped when the rim disintegrated. After he was cuffed he told deputies he knew they were following him, but said he had a lot on his mind and did not feel like stopping.

We have an armed gunman on the loose in our region. .....
I think he may be deranged somewhat........

This is not too far from where I grew up.

Gordy's former 'Motown Mansion' on sale for $1.395M
Louis Aguilar and Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit -- The mansion made famous by Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. and once hosted the likes of Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross is up for sale for an unofficial $1.395 million.

That's the initial idea, but the hope is to post an official list price Monday, said Kenan Bakirci, a sales associate for Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel in its Birmingham/Bloomfield South office.

Owner Cynthia Reaves confirmed the Boston Edison home will be put on the market in a few days. She declined to give the reasons for selling. The nearly 10,000-square-foot mansion was Gordy's home for many years.

Motown mansion for sale