A member of the U.S. Air National Guards accused of leaking classified military documents has a history of making violent threats, used his government computer to research mass shootings and tried to destroy evidence of his alleged crimes, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
In a 48-page filing, the Justice Department said 21-year-old Jack Teixeira should be detained pending trial, saying his violent rhetoric coupled with his apparent efforts to destroy evidence “compound his risk of flight and dangerousness.”
Prosecutors will present their arguments in favour of detention to a U.S. magistrate judge in Worcester, Mass., on Thursday afternoon.
Teixeira’s lawyers have not commented on
