{{short description|American man (born 1966)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}} {{Infobox criminal | name = Lloyd R. Woodson | image_name = | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = | nationality = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|01|31}} | birth_place =New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | cause = | alias = | motive = | charge = Various firearms charges in 2010 at state and federal level | conviction = Prior conviction in 1997: Criminal possession of a weapon. | conviction_penalty = Convicted and sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in prison | conviction_status = Incarcerated at New Jersey State Prison | occupation = | spouse = Tracey Everett | parents = | children = }} '''Lloyd R. Woodson''' (born January 31, 1966) is an American man whose arrest in central New Jersey on January 25, 2010, received national attention in the United States.<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/26/new.jersey.weapons.arrest/ "Man with weapons, map of military base arrested"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129215428/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/26/new.jersey.weapons.arrest/ |date=January 29, 2010 }}, CNN, January 26, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.</ref> Woodson was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and was wearing a ballistic vest at the time of his arrest. A subsequent search of his motel room uncovered a large cache of weapons, ammunition, and gear including a grenade launcher, a night vision scope, a police scanner, a Middle Eastern ''keffiyeh'', and a number of maps. One was of Fort Drum, a U.S. military facility located five hours away, near the border of Canada in upstate New York.<ref>[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\27\story_27-1-2010_pg7_9 "US police arrest heavily armed man with military map"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320213349/https://dailytimes.com.pk/ |date=March 20, 2022 }}, ''Daily Times (Pakistan)'', AFP, January 27, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2010.</ref><ref name=hot/>
Woodson said he intended to use the weapons for a violent crime but appeared to have been acting alone. The government did not find any evidence of association with terrorist groups or a terrorist plot.<ref name=fft>{{cite news |url=http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/cms/story.php?id=1010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730113304/http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/cms/story.php?id=1010 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 30, 2012 |last=MacDonald |first=Greg |date=February 2, 2010 |title=Reston man faces federal weapons charges; Officials say man found in possession of grenade launcher, military base map |work=Fairfax Times |accessdate=February 2, 2010}}</ref><ref name=njcom20100226>[https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_with_weapons_cach.html "FBI finds no terrorism link to Virginia man with weapons cache in N.J. motel room"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127210125/https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_with_weapons_cach.html |date=January 27, 2019 }}, Associated Press, NJ.COM, February 26, 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2010.</ref>
On January 26, 2010, Woodson was charged in state court with various criminal charges. Bail was set at $75,000. On January 29, he was charged in federal court, and consented to be held without bail. On February 25, a county grand jury indicted Woodson for attempted armed robbery (second degree), possession of a firearm for unlawful purpose, unlawful possession of a rifle, possession of a defaced firearm, possession of hollow-point bullets, and possession of high-capacity ammunition magazines.<ref>[https://www.nj.com/messenger-gazette/index.ssf/2010/02/grand_jury_indicts_man_on_weapons_charges_from_branchburg_incident.html "Grand jury indicts man on weapons charges from Branchburg incident"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116110736/https://www.nj.com/messenger-gazette/index.ssf/2010/02/grand_jury_indicts_man_on_weapons_charges_from_branchburg_incident.html |date=November 16, 2018 }}, ''The Messenger-Gazette'', February 25, 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2010.</ref><ref name="indictment"/> A defense psychiatrist said that Woodson was competent to stand trial, but was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and incapable of carrying out the crimes with which he was charged. He was convicted and sentenced on September 28, 2012, to {{frac|14|1|2}} years in New Jersey State Prison.
==Personal life== Woodson, 43 years old at the time of his arrest, is an African American man from Reston, Virginia, where he had lived less than a year after abandoning his wife and family. He had previously lived in District Heights, Maryland, and Queens and Brooklyn, New York.<ref name=no/><ref name=NBC>{{cite news |url= http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=11880907 |last= Mulvihill |first= Geoff |date= January 26, 2010 |title= Va. man arrested with arsenal, mysterious maps |publisher= NBC |accessdate= January 26, 2010}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
Woodson joined the U.S. Navy in February 1988, serving aboard the USS ''Orion'', a submarine tender. He deserted in April 1989.<ref name=usat20100126/>
On or about April 10, 1997 he was convicted by a Kings County Supreme Court jury of criminal possession of a weapon in Brooklyn, New York<ref name="cox"/><ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/lloyd-r-woodson-arrested-_n_436708.html Mulvihill, Geoff, "Lloyd Woodson Arrested: Man Had Grenade Launcher, Weapons, Maps"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130014928/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/lloyd-r-woodson-arrested-_n_436708.html |date=January 30, 2010 }}, ''Huffington Post'', January 26, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.</ref><ref name=faci/> – a felony punishable with a prison term greater than one year.<ref name="cox"/><ref name="autogenerated1"/> At this time, eight years after he deserted the Navy, he was returned to the Navy's custody. He was given a dishonorable discharge in August 1997.<ref name=hot/><ref name=usat20100126>[http://content.usatoday.com/communities/hotelcheckin/post/2010/01/grenade-launcher-map-of-military-facility-found-in-ex-navy-mans-new-jersey-motel-room/1 "Grenade launcher, map of military facility found in ex-Navy man's N.J. motel room"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130015239/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/hotelcheckin/post/2010/01/grenade-launcher-map-of-military-facility-found-in-ex-navy-mans-new-jersey-motel-room/1 |date=January 30, 2010 }} ''USA Today'', January 26, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.</ref><ref>[https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/27/FBI-Weapons-suspect-had-map-of-Army-base/UPI-34921264572701/ "FBI: Weapons suspect had map of Army base"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128030257/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/27/FBI-Weapons-suspect-had-map-of-Army-base/UPI-34921264572701/ |date=January 28, 2019 }}, UPI, January 27, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2010.</ref>
==Arrest== Woodson had been inside the QuickChek convenience store on Easton Turnpike in Branchburg, New Jersey for approximately 40 minutes when a female convenience store clerk phoned the police to report a person behaving suspiciously. Officers responding to the call at 3:55 am reportedly encountered an "extremely nervous" Woodson, who was wearing a green military-style jacket with a "large bulge" in the front.<ref>[http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20100226/UPDATES01/100226033/Virginia-man-indicted-in-Somerset-Co.-weapons-case Deak, Michael, "Virginia man indicted in Somerset Co. weapons case"]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}, ''Daily Record'', February 26, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2010.</ref> Upon being questioned by the investigating officer, Woodson ran out of the back of the store, toward the nearby Regency Trailer Park.<ref name="gols"/> Officers found him hiding in the bushes, drew their guns and ordered him to surrender; he was tackled and subdued with pepper spray.<ref name=hot/><ref name="CBS"/>
Woodson was wearing a military-style ballistic vest with a reinforced front steel plate. Concealed under his green, military-style jacket was a loaded semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle, which had a defaced serial number and had the upper receiver changed to the .50 Beowulf instead of the stock .223{{nbhyph}}caliber (5.56 mm) upper. Also concealed under Woodson's jacket were four additional high-capacity magazines all loaded with ammunition, some of which were hollow points.<ref name="cox"/><ref name="gols"/><ref name="CBS">Martinez, Edecio (January 26, 2010), [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lloyd-r-woodson-busted-with-weapons-cache-map-of-military-base-headdress-say-nj-cops/ "Lloyd R. Woodson Busted with Weapons Cache, Map of Military Base, Headdress, Say NJ Cops"] ''CBS News''. Retrieved January 26, 2010.</ref> Branchburg Police Chief, Brian Fitzgerald, who was concerned that Woodson's .50{{nbhyph}}caliber bullets could penetrate officers' protective vests, "police car door and maybe through the other side of their police car", awarded the Exceptional Duty Award to three Branchburg police officers who responded to the Woodson report.<ref name="tiff">{{cite news|url=http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/03/branchburg_honors_cops_who_nab.html|title=Three police officers are honored for quick response to Virginia man with arsenal in Branchburg motel room|last=Garlic|first=Tiffani N.|date=March 9, 2010|work=The Star-Ledger|accessdate=March 19, 2010|archive-date=March 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316091642/http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/03/branchburg_honors_cops_who_nab.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Detectives subsequently searched Woodson's room at the Red Mill Inn motel in Branchburg, where he had been staying for a week. They found a cache of weapons and equipment including another Bushmaster .308{{nbhyph}}caliber semiautomatic rifle with a defaced serial number and a flash suppressor, a 37 mm Cobray flare launcher,<ref name=faci>{{cite news |url= http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_facing_nj_federal.html |date= January 26, 2010 |title= Virginia man facing N.J., federal weapons charges had map of Fort Drum in N.Y. |work= Star-Ledger |accessdate= January 26, 2010 |archive-date= January 30, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100130180405/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_facing_nj_federal.html |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name="Fox News"/> a second bulletproof vest, a Russian-made rifle-mountable Nightsight Illuminator NP75 night vision scope, a police scanner, and hundreds of rounds of .50{{nbhyph}}caliber and .308{{nbhyph}}caliber ammunition, both ball-type and hollow-point bullets, as well as military wear, and garrison equipment.<ref name="cox"/><ref name="gols"/><ref name="Fox News">[http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/01/26/man-arrested-weapons-map-military-facility-seized-nj-motel-room/?test=latestnews "Man Arrested After Weapons, Map of U.S. Military Facility Seized From N.J. Motel Room,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024162758/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/01/26/man-arrested-weapons-map-military-facility-seized-nj-motel-room/?test=latestnews |date=October 24, 2012 }}, Fox News, January 26, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2010.</ref><ref>Robbins, Liz (January 26, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/nyregion/27grenade.html "Police Find Weapons After N.J. Arrest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127205730/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/nyregion/27grenade.html |date=January 27, 2019 }}, ''The New York Times''. Retrieved January 26, 2010.</ref>
According to a New Jersey court filing, Woodson had waived his Miranda rights. He said he bought the firearms on the streets of New York, obliterated the serial numbers on them, and brought them to New Jersey from Virginia.<ref name="cox"/><ref name=faci/> Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said that for private citizens to have this type of armament is "quite unusual in Somerset County."<ref name=hot>{{cite news |url= http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/suspicious_virginia_man_had_we.html |date= January 25, 2010 |title= Virginia man had weapons cache, grenade launcher stashed in N.J. hotel room |work= Star-Ledger |accessdate= January 26, 2010 |archive-date= January 27, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100127184828/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/suspicious_virginia_man_had_we.html |url-status= live }}</ref>
Also in his room were a detailed map of the Fort Drum U.S. military facility in upstate New York near the Canada–US border, a five-hours' drive from Branchburg, and a map of a town in a state other than New Jersey.<ref name="cox"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100129062916/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-nj-weapons-arrest,0,1633106.story "Va. man arrested with weapons arsenal, map of NY's Fort Drum Army base; intentions unclear"], ''Los Angeles Times'', January 26, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/26/new.jersey.weapons/ "Officials find arsenal of weapons in New Jersey hotel room"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604044433/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/26/new.jersey.weapons/ |date=June 4, 2011 }}, CNN, January 27, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2010.</ref> NBC reported that the map of Fort Drum was a concern to authorities, but the FBI found no link between him and recognized terrorism groups.<ref name=no/><ref>LaFleur, Tonya, [http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Northern-Va-Man-Had-Weapons-Cache-Police-82657772.html "NoVa Man Had Weapons Cache: Police Man found with map of U.S. military installation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320213352/https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-va-man-had-weapons-cache-police/1876885/ |date=March 20, 2022 }}, NBC, January 26, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2010.</ref> Detectives also found a traditional red-and-white Middle Eastern keffiyeh.<ref name=no>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012601963.html |last=Markon |first=Jerry |date=January 27, 2010 |title=FBI says no terrorism link for Reston man found with weapons |work=Washington Post |accessdate=January 26, 2010 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604144418/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012601963.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="CBS"/>
==Investigation and reactions== CNN journalists Wolf Blitzer and Rick Sanchez explored whether there was a terrorist link on January 26, 2010.<ref>Feyerick, Deborah [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/26/sitroom.02.html "Chaos in Haiti; Al Qaeda Seeking WMD?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629123445/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/26/sitroom.02.html |date=June 29, 2011 }}, The Situation Room, CNN, January 26, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2010.</ref><ref name="rick">{{cite news|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/26/rlst.01.html|title=Rick's List|last=Sanchez|first=Rick|author2=Baldwin, Brooke|date=January 26, 2010|publisher=CNN|accessdate=March 20, 2010|archive-date=June 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629123457/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/26/rlst.01.html|url-status=live}}</ref> An editorial in ''The Washington Times'' drew parallels with Nidal Malik Hasan. It said "When a man is apprehended with a cache of weapons, body armor, a map of a military installation and jihadist personal effects, the natural response of most Americans is to assume the situation is terrorist-related" and suggested the Obama administration's definition of terrorism was too narrow.<ref>[http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/01/obama-wont-connect-terror-dots/?feat=home_editorials "Editorial: Obama won't connect terror dots"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203112806/http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/01/obama-wont-connect-terror-dots/?feat=home_editorials |date=February 3, 2010 }}, ''The Washington Times'', February 1, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2010.</ref>
The Associated Press reported that the weapons and the map raised questions about whether Woodson was planning an attack on Fort Drum. The Somerset County prosecutor Wayne Forrest did not comment on whether he thought Woodson had been planning to attack the New York facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/lloyd-woodson-arrested-by-police-in-somerset-with-grenade-launcher-weapons-maps-of-a-military-site |author=Cruz, Alicia |title=Lloyd Woodson arrested by police in Somerset with grenade launcher, weapons, maps of a military site |publisher=Newjerseynewsroom.com |date=January 26, 2010 |accessdate=March 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714174659/http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/lloyd-woodson-arrested-by-police-in-somerset-with-grenade-launcher-weapons-maps-of-a-military-site |archivedate=July 14, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Fort Drum's garrison commander, Col. Kenneth Riddle, issued a statement on January 27, 2010, saying the garrison had been notified immediately when the map was discovered in Woodson's possession; he believed the post was secure due to security measures already in place.<ref name=map>{{cite news |url= http://www.myabc50.com/news/local/story/Feds-weapons-suspect-had-map-of-Fort-Drum/Fg3yw1R860iDoZMVx7ltUQ.cspx |date= January 27, 2010 |title= Feds: weapons suspect had map of Fort Drum |work= ABC |accessdate= January 27, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110726191352/http://www.myabc50.com/news/local/story/Feds-weapons-suspect-had-map-of-Fort-Drum/Fg3yw1R860iDoZMVx7ltUQ.cspx |archive-date= July 26, 2011 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
==State proceedings, conviction, and sentencing== Woodson was charged in state court on January 26, 2010, with second-degree unlawful possession of weapons, fourth-degree possession of prohibited defaced firearms and prohibited weapons- armor penetrating bullets, fourth degree possession of large capacity ammunition magazine, obstruction of justice, and resisting arrest.<ref name=no/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/reporter/index.ssf/2010/01/weapons_suspect_arraigned_man.html |title=Peterka, Amanda, "Weapons suspect arraigned; man with alleged arsenal in Branchburg motel room surprises public |work=Messenger-Gazette |date=January 26, 2010 |accessdate=January 26, 2010 |publisher=Nj.com |archive-date=January 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130200250/http://www.nj.com/reporter/index.ssf/2010/01/weapons_suspect_arraigned_man.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Bail was set by a New Jersey Superior Court Judge John Pursel in Somerville at $75,000.<ref>[http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1165593&lang=eng_news "$75K bail set for US man facing weapon charges"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035659/http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1165593&lang=eng_news |date=June 4, 2011 }}, ''Taiwan News'', January 27, 2010, Retrieved January 30, 2010</ref><ref name=sets>{{cite news |url= http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_with_weapons_cach_1.html |last= Golson |first= Jennifer |date= January 26, 2010 |title= Judge sets $75K bail for Virginia man accused of having weapons cache at N.J. motel |work= The Star-Ledger |accessdate= January 26, 2010 |archive-date= January 29, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100129052637/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_with_weapons_cach_1.html |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35076821 "Weapons cache, maps found after man’s arrest; Police find maps of a military facility in the man’s New Jersey motel room"] NBC News, January 26, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2010.</ref>
On February 25, 2010, Woodson was indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on numerous charges, including second-degree attempted robbery and multiple weapons offenses, including second-degree possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose and fourth-degree possession of hollow-point bullets.<ref name="indictment">[http://www.myabc5.com/Global/story.asp?S=12050094 "Ex-Va. man indicted in NJ weapons case"]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ABC, March 1, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2010.</ref> Chanel Hudson, Woodson's public defender on the state charges,<ref name="indictment"/><ref name="gols"/> noted that she has not yet received all of the discovery. Hudson said that attempted robbery was not an initial charge, and would like to see the evidence they have to support it.<ref name="gols">{{cite news|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/virginia_man_indicted_for_havi.html|title=Virginia man is indicted for allegedly having weapons arsenal stashed in N.J. motel room|last=Golson|first=Jennifer|date=February 25, 2010|work=The Star-Ledger|accessdate=March 19, 2010|archive-date=April 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403085447/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/virginia_man_indicted_for_havi.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
On April 10, 2010, Woodson pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=12288955&nav=1ugS |title=Ex-Va. man pleads not guilty in NJ weapons case – WRIC Richmond News and Weather |publisher=Wric.com |date=April 10, 2010 |accessdate=September 15, 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=PETER THORNE |url=http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-va-man-weapons-charges,0,3373722.story |title=Virginia Man Pleads Not Guilty To Hiding Weapons In NJ Motel Room |publisher=WPIX |date=April 10, 2010 |accessdate=September 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724024606/http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-va-man-weapons-charges,0,3373722.story |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On August 20, 2010, his defense lawyer asserted in New Jersey Superior Court that a defense psychiatrist's report indicated Woodson is competent to stand trial, but has paranoid schizophrenia, “which rendered him incapable of committing the crimes he’s charged with.”<ref>{{cite web |author=Amanda Brown |work=The Star-Ledger |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/va_man_accused_of_attempted_ro_1.html |title=Va. man accused of attempted robbery, stashing arsenal in N.J. motel will undergo psychiatric evaluation |publisher=NJ.com |accessdate=September 15, 2010 |date=August 20, 2010 |archive-date=August 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825032923/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/va_man_accused_of_attempted_ro_1.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Woodson was sentenced by Judge Reed to {{frac|14|1|2}} years in New Jersey State Prison on September 28, 2012, and must serve 10 years and 8 months before he becomes eligible for parole.<ref>[http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20120928/NJNEWS14/309280054/Virginia-man-sentenced-attempted-armed-robbery-weapons-offences article] mycentraljersey</ref>
==Federal proceedings== The day after the arrest, the FBI indicated its preliminary finding that Woodson did not appear to have a link to any known terrorist groups, nor a specific terrorist plot. It stressed that the matter was still under investigation.<ref name="Fox News"/><ref name=faci/> After initial investigation and meeting with local authorities, the FBI and the local Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives determined that, despite the amount of firepower uncovered, the incident was not terror-related. Former FBI agent Brad Garrett commented that unless they could link Woodson to a specific group, the FBI was unlikely to say it was terror-related, adding "For whatever reason, they feel like this doesn't rise to be prosecuted in federal court."<ref name=terrorismthing>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/man-lloyd-woodson-nj-arrested-grenade-launcher/story?id=9663085 |date=January 26, 2010 |title=N.J. Grenade Launcher Suspect Was a Navy Deserter |agency=Fox News |accessdate=January 31, 2010 |author1=Lee Ferran |author2=Jen Maxfield |name-list-style=amp |archive-date=January 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129214448/http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/man-lloyd-woodson-nj-arrested-grenade-launcher/story?id=9663085 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Subsequently, federal authorities charged Woodson in a criminal complaint with violating the federal law prohibiting a felon previously convicted of a weapons offense from possessing firearms.<ref name="cox">{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/press/press/files/pdffiles/woodsoncomplt.pdf|title=Criminal Complaint; U.S. v. Woodson|last=Wojcik|first=Kimberly|publisher=U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey|accessdate=March 19, 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214231858/http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/press/press/files/pdffiles/woodsoncomplt.pdf|archivedate=February 14, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/26/us/AP-US-NJ-Weapons-Arrest.html "Va. Man Arrested With Arsenal, Map of NY Army Base"], ''The New York Times'', January 26, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.</ref><ref>Cuomo, Chris, and Ferran, Lee (January 27, 2010), [https://abcnews.go.com/WN/easy-grenade-launcher/story?id=9679518&page=2 "How Easy Is It to Get a Grenade Launcher?l N.J. Weapons Find Inspires Examination of Military-Grade Weapons Purchase"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128083149/https://abcnews.go.com/WN/easy-grenade-launcher/story?id=9679518&page=2 |date=January 28, 2019 }} ''ABC News''. Retrieved January 27, 2010.</ref> He appeared briefly in federal court on January 29, 2010, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in Newark.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/reporter/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_weapons_man_expected.html |author=Oeterka, Amanda |title=Virginia weapons man arrested in Branchburg expected in federal court in Newark |work=Messenger-Gazette |date=January 28, 2010 |publisher=Nj.com |accessdate=March 16, 2010 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605001704/http://www.nj.com/reporter/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_weapons_man_expected.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was assigned a public defender and waived his right to a detention hearing, and his lawyer said he would consent to being held in custody without bail.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/01/29/general-us-nj-weapons-arrest_7315561.html "Man charged in NJ weapons case remains in custody"]{{dead link|date=January 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''Forbes'', January 29, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2010.</ref>
The prosecutor told the judge that Woodson admitted in an interview that he intended to use the weapons in furtherance of a violent crime, though the prosecutor did not explain further, and the U.S. attorney's office spokesman said he would not elaborate.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012901696.html Mulvihill, Geoff, "Man charged in NJ weapons case remains in custody"], ''The Washington Post'', January 29, 2010, Retrieved January 29, 2010{{Dead link|date=March 2010}}</ref> The federal charge carries a potential sentence of 10 years in prison, with a $250,000 fine.<ref>Golson, Jennifer, [https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_with_weapons_cach_2.html "Virginia man accused of having weapons cache in N.J. motel makes first court appearance"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127210148/https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_with_weapons_cach_2.html |date=January 27, 2019 }}, ''The Star-Ledger'', January 29, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.</ref>
U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Greg Reinert indicated that, given the detainer on him for the federal charge, Woodson would not be released even should he succeed at making bail at the county level.<ref name=fft/>
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