April 13, 2023

The FBI arrested a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard on Thursday in connection with a significant leak of classified Pentagon documents, according to the Justice Department and FBI officials.

Attorney General Merrick Garland identified the suspect as Jack Teixeira, 21, and said he’d been arrested “without incident” earlier Thursday.

Garland commented shortly after live video from local television stations showed FBI personnel swarming a home located in North Dighton, Mass. and leading a young male suspect from the residence. The law-enforcement action took place in the same town where Teixeira and his mother live, according to a review of public records by POLITICO.

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