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This photo illustration created on Apr. 13, 2023, shows the suspect, National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He is suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive U.S. government secrets.

This photo illustration created on Apr. 13, 2023, shows the suspect, National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He is suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive U.S. government secrets. (Stefani Reynolds, AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

BOSTON (Tribune News Service) — Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira is set to return to court this week, as the 21-year-old IT tech tries to get released from federal detention after he allegedly leaked military secrets.

Teixeira, of North Dighton, is expected to be in federal court 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 Monday.

During the previous detention hearing, Teixeira’s lawyers said he should be free before trial and offered that he could remain under home confinement at his father’s home in North Dighton.

Federal prosecutors argued that Teixeira’s access to firearms and the potential that he is still in possession of classified information makes him a risk to release. The judge, David H. Hennessy, took the arguments under advisement.

The E-3/airman first class stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod is accused of leaking classified documents on the war in Ukraine and other national security issues. He allegedly posted the military secrets on Discord, a social media platform.

Teixeira is charged with unauthorized removal and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials. He could face 25 years in prison.

Meanwhile, The New York Times over the weekend reported on Teixeira’s “online world” after the Times reviewed more 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 theory that the U.S. orchestrated mass shootings. He wrote on Discord after a mass shooting last year, “The FBI and other 3 letter agencies contact these unhinged mentally ill kids and convince them to do mass shootings.”

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