The feds warn that Jack Teixeira, accused of leaking classified documents on the war in Ukraine, could still expose more secrets if he’s released from prison.

Teixeira, 21, an E-3/Airman First Class stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, was arrested at his family home in North Dighton earlier this month and has a detention hearing Thursday in federal court in Worcester.

Prosecutors say he should not get out.

“In the first place, the Defendant poses a serious flight risk,” U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins said in a 50-page motion for pre-trail detention posted Wednesday night.

Rollins and her team added that Teixeira “currently faces 25 years in  prison—and potentially far more—and other serious consequences for his conduct; the evidence  against him is substantial and mounting; the charged conduct would very obviously end his  military career; and he accessed and may still have access to a trove of classified information that  would be of tremendous value to hostile nation states that could offer him safe harbor and attempt  to facilitate his escape from the United States. ”

This is a developing story …