Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira is about to return to courtroom this week, because the 21-year-old IT tech tries to get launched from federal detention after he allegedly leaked army secrets and techniques.
Teixeira, of North Dighton, is anticipated to be in federal courtroom on Thursday afternoon.
“Continued detention hearing for Army National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been set for this Thursday, May 11 at 2pm in federal court in Worcester,” the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office tweeted on Monday.
During the earlier detention listening to, Teixeira’s legal professionals stated he needs to be free earlier than trial and provided that he might stay underneath house confinement at his father’s house in North Dighton.
Federal prosecutors argued that Teixeira’s entry to firearms and the potential that he’s nonetheless in possession of categorised info makes him a threat to launch. The decide, David H. Hennessy, took the arguments underneath advisement.
The E-3/Airman First Class stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod is accused of leaking categorised paperwork on the struggle in Ukraine and different nationwide safety points. He allegedly posted the army secrets and techniques on Discord, a social media platform.
Teixeira is charged with unauthorized elimination and transmission of nationwide protection info and unauthorized elimination and retention of categorised paperwork or supplies. He might face 25 years in jail.
Meanwhile, the New York Times over the weekend reported on Teixeira’s “online world” after the Times reviewed greater than 9,500 messages.
Teixeira was “fixated on weapons, mass shootings, shadowy conspiracy theories — and proving he was in the right, and in the know,” the Times reported.
Teixeira posted a debunked conspiracy idea that the U.S. orchestrated mass shootings. He wrote on Discord after a mass capturing final 12 months, “The FBI and other 3 letter agencies contact these unhinged mentally ill kids and convince them to do mass shootings.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”