The FBI arrested this Thursday in the town of North Dighton (Massachusetts) the alleged author of leaks of secret US documents, which could be the most serious in a decade. The FBI has confirmed in a statement that it had made an arrest in North Dighton and, although it did not specify who the person arrested is, the US media assure that it is Jack Teixeira, 21 years old and a member of the Air National Guard of Massachusetts.

US televisions showed the large police device that was set up around the young man’s home in North Dighton de Teixeira, with helicopters flying over the surroundings. Dressed in very casual clothes, a T-shirt and shorts, Jack Douglas Teixeira, the ultra-religious lover of weapons who leaked secret US documents, left his home in Massachusetts with his hands on his head. He was surrounded by SWAT, who were running the operation.

As can be seen in the main video that accompanies this news, the agents ask the 21-year-old to walk towards them, and when he is approaching the van, they order him to turn around and walk back. backs. At that moment, six armed Special Forces men point rifles at himwhile one of them puts the shackles on him.

Teixeira’s arrest has been analyzed to the millimeter. At first, they wanted to stop him when he went to the military base where he works, but just this Thursday he did not go to his workplace. In addition, the information published in the media and the fact that had assault weapons that he knew how to handle precipitated his arrest.

He FBI had been monitoring his home and surroundings for days. This Friday, the young man will testify in a Boston court on suspicion of leaking dozens of classified documents. Specifically, he will be tried for the “alleged unauthorized extraction, retention and transmission of classified national defense information,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Nobody suspected this young man from a patriotic family, with veterans in the Army. He also had a military career, which his mother proudly boasted about on social media. Jack, 21, had been working as an Air National Guard in Massachusetts since 2019, in communications networks for the intelligence wing, a position that highlights the security of the Pentagon.