Navy Worker Fakes Military Base Active Shooter to 'Trauma Bond' w Co-Workers| Crime Alert

Unfriendly Fire: A civilian worker at a military base lied about an active shooter, placing the facility on lockdown, to force her co-workers to like her. 

A disgraced pedo teacher who forced her underage victims to wear 'Scream' masks during sex - is now facing a whopping 47 felony counts...after yet another accuser came forward. Plus, a woman's saucy attitude lands her in the slammer!  Jennifer Gould reports.  

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Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
The reason a massive New Jersey military base was suddenly
thrown into a terrifying lockdown was not a terror plot
or an attack, but a chillingly pathetic attempt by a
lonely civilian employee to force her coworkers to like her.

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Malika Brittingham, a civilian assigned to the sprawling joint Base
McGuire Dix Lakehurst, which spans forty two thousand acres and
combines Air Force, Army and Navy functions, now faces federal charges.
The motive, prosecutors revealed was a desperate desire to quote

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unquote trauma bond with her colleagues after feeling ostracized. The
incident unnecessarily panicked the basis population of boardon forty two
thousand service members, relative tives, and civilian employees. The senseless
fear mongering began shortly after ten am. Brittingham, who works

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for the Naval Air Warfare Center, allegedly texted an individual
the false alarm, stating specifically, quote shooter on base heard
five or six shots. Hiding in the closet with coworkers
end quote, believing the lie, the recipient frantically called the
Bases Operations Center and nine one one, immediately triggering a

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massive lockdown order that paralyzed the installation for approximately one hour.
This woman spoke to ABC six News. I went like,
what's going on? What's going on? I said, you know what,
keep tropping. Let me go in the bathroom and I
ran in the bathroom free. But the entire event was

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a hoax. When investigators interviewed Brittingham, she initially lied about
the timing of her text. However, authorities quickly reviewed the
time stamps of the emergency calls and Brittingham's texts and
proved her statement was quote unquote not true. Cornered by
the evidence, Brittingham confessed, revealing her bizarre scheme to create

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a shared crisis for social acceptance. Brittingham was taken into
custody and is charged with knowingly conveying false information about
an active shooter. More Crime and Justice news. After this,

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the depraved saga of the Indiana teacher who allegedly orchestrated
lurid group sex sessions, forcing her young victims to wear
masks from the Scream horror franchise as intensified with new
damning accusations. Britney Fortenbury, thirty two, a former Eminence High

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School math teacher, now faces an overwhelming total of forty
seven criminal charges after another accuser step forward. Michelle Armstrong,
a Morgan County deputy prosecutor, spoke to WTHRNBC thirteen. Now
I realized that this case has received a good deal
of publicity, but the focus is and will remain on

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the victims in the defendants right to a fair trial.
Fortonberry's alleged WS came to light in March and has
now swelled from her initial charges, which included ten counts
of child molestation, eight counts of dissemination of matter harmful
to a minor, and one count of sexual misconduct with

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a minor. The new charges filed in Morgan County add
six more counts to the laundry list of offenses. The
new male accuser came forward in early September, detailing how
Fortonberry would invite him to her house, flied him with drugs,
and complimented his appearance. The misconduct involved sex in her garage,

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he claims. Court records detail a disturbing pattern. Forton Berry
allegedly lured boys aged thirteen to eighteen using Snapchat or
session to her home, flying them with alcohol, marijuana, and
psychedelic mushrooms. In one account of thirteen year old said
she spent six hundred dollars on him and friends at

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the mall before hosting a gang bang where participants had
to wear scream masks rotating every fifteen minutes in hours
long sessions. Another thirteen year old claimed forton Berry drugged
and raped him multiple times, paying boys up to eight
hundred dollars for explicit photos. One victim claimed she masturbated

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to his school photos and filmed herself with his underwear.
The scandal has shredded her personal life. Her husband, Nicholas Fortenberry,
filed for divorce a month before her initial arrest and
is seeking custody of their four year old child. In
a related detail, he faces charges for threatening a victim

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and failing to report the abuse. The weight of the
charges is staggering. Conviction on child molestation charges could mean
twenty to forty years per count, potentially over two hundred
years in prison. Fortonbury, who once blamed her actions on
a one hundred and fifty pound weight loss for the abuse,

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threatened to kill herself if her crimes were reported. Her
preliminary hearing data is set for next week in Morgan County.
And finally, talk about saucy. A Kentucky woman got all
hot and bothered when she was asked to cough up
mordaux for a one dollar sauce packet. Breanna Hayes was

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already given one free Marinera packet at the Louisville Little Caesars,
but when an employee asked her to pay for a
second one, she just couldn't stomach it and went off
the deep dish, and surveillance video allegedly captured her knocking
down pricey registers and a custom computer stand, with Hayes's

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angry rage ringing up a reported one thousand bucks in damage.
That's a lot of bread. She's now charged with criminal
mischief and assault. Seems like this demanding customer is now
getting a large serving of jail time for cooking up
all that trouble. For the latest crime and Justice news
followed the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast

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app with this crime Alert, I'm Jennifer Goold.