The charging documents against Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s intelligence accused of leaking hundreds of highly-classified data to a gaming chat server, have been made public by the Justice Department.

The New York Times reports that Mr Teixeira was charged on Friday in federal court in Boston with violating two federal laws that forbid the illegal retention, removal, and transmission of confidential and national security information.

He will remain behind bars until a detention hearing on Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts U.S. attorney’s office.

The criminal complaint filed by the F.B.I. against Mr Teixeira makes reference to two laws that deal with protecting state secrets.

F.B.I. Special agent, Patrick Lueckenhoff, informed the federal judge on Friday that there was reason to think Mr Teixeira had broken Sections 793 and 1924 of Title 18 of the federal code.

In 2021, Mr Teixeira was awarded a top-secret security clearance, which was essential for his job as a computer network technician in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to the court papers.

Peoples Gazette had earlier reported that Mr Teixeira was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection to a series of leaked classified United States government and military documents.

He was arrested Thursday afternoon at his residence in Dighton, Massachusetts.

After the information, which sent shockwaves across the Pentagon, became public, the U.S. government admitted the country has some members of its special forces stationed at the American Embassy in war-torn Ukraine. But they refused to say the exact number of military personnel.