Branchburg, N.J., police seized a cache of weaponry, including hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a grenade launcher, rifles and a night-vision scope, from the motel room of a Virgina resident who was arrested yesterday based on a "suspicious person" tip.

What had Lloyd R. Woodson, 43, planned to do when he checked in to the Red Mill Inn in Branchburg, N.J., about an hour away from New York City? The munitions-strapped man had gone to a Quik Chek store near his motel when police, upon receiving a tip about Woodson, approached him. As officers started to question Woodson, he quickly escaped toward a nearby trailer park. The police officers gave chase, and the suspect was apprehended in some nearby bushes. When law enforcement tried to tackle Woodson, he ran away again, but was quickly caught after police pepper sprayed him into submission.

According to the prosecutors office, Woodson was wearing a green military-style jacket with a bulletproof vest underneath. He was also carrying a semi-automatic Bushmaster rifle, which had been tweaked to unload .50-caliber ammunition.

When detectives ransacked Woodson's motel room, they were in disbelief at what they had discovered. The stock of items that were found were reminiscent of a military dissenter gone mad. They seized another Bushmaster .308-caliber semiautomatic rifle with a defaced serial number, a grenade launcher, another bulletproof vest, a Russian-made night-vision scope, a police scanner, a map of a U.S. military installation, a map of an out-of-state civilian community, a Middle Eastern traditional headdress, and hundreds of rounds of .50-caliber and .308-caliber ammunition.

Woodson is being held in jail and is charged with unlawful possession of weapons, possession of prohibited weapons, obstruction of justice and resisting arrest, just to name a few. Bail has not been set.

The FBI issued a statement:

"Presently, there does not appear to be a link to terrorism; Woodson does not appear to have a link to any known terrorist groups nor a specific terrorist plot. However, the matter is still under investigation, and these should only be considered preliminary findings. It is possible that Mr. Woodson could face federal gun charges, but that has yet to be determined. At this time, the matter is being worked as a state case out of the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office."