A federal judge is taking some time to decide whether Massachusetts Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira should be released before his trial after hearing arguments  from federal prosecutors that he should remain locked up.

Lawyers for Teixeira said he should be free beore trial and offered that he could remain under home confinement at his father’s home in North Dighton.

Magistrate Judge David H. Hennessy took the arguments under advisement.

Prosecutors argued that Teixeira should remain locked up, citing their concerns with his access to firearms and the potential that he is still in possession of classified information.

Teixeira, an 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. He was arrested at his family home in North Dighton on April 13, the day the allegations came to light.

He’s charged with unauthorized removal and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials.

Attorneys for Teixeira said the airman has stable family support and does not represent a risk of flight.

“He poses no danger of risk to his community,” said his attorney Brendan Kelley.

“You have a young man before you who didn’t flee, has nowhere to flee,” said Kelley, the defendant’s lawyer. “He will answer the charges, he will be judged by his fellow citizens”

But Nadine Pellegrini, chief of national security division in the Massachusetts U.S. attorney’s office, told the judge the information prosecutors submitted to the court about the defendant’s threatening words and behavior “is not speculation, it is not hyperbole, nor is it the creation of a caricature. It is based on what we know to date … directly based upon the words and actions of this defendant.”

The prosecution’s filing contains a review of what it says are Teixeira social media posts, stating in November that he would “kill a (expletive) ton of people” if he had his way, because it would be “culling the weak minded.”

While Hennessey considers Teixeira’s appeal for release, he will remain held in custody.

Teixeira wore an orange prison jumpsuit in Wednesday’s hearing at Federal Court in Worcester. He entered the courtroom in handcuffs which were removed during the hearing.

Teixeira’s father was in the courtroom and spoke to the court when questioned by Kelley about the potential conditions surrounding the possibility of home detention for his son.

— Wire services contributed