A federal judge in Springfield on Tuesday ordered Alexander Ciccolo detained until trial. The government says the 23-year-old resident of Adams, Massachusetts, planned to attack a college on behalf of the Islamic State.

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Prosecutors played a video in court showing part of Ciccolo’s interview with the FBI, in which he talked about his support for ISIS, but nothing about the alleged plot to set off homemade bombs on a college campus.

Ciccolo’s attorney, David Hoose, noted his client currently only faces a guns charge, and he wanted him placed on GPS monitoring with family in a remote part of Berkshire County.

“One of the things that’s hard to convey is the depth of this young man’s feeling towards his mother and stepdad,” Hoose told reporters gathered after the hearing. “And, as I said in court, he would not do anything to put them at risk or in danger.”

Federal Magistrate Judge Katherine Robertson said she needed to consider the circumstances of that guns charge, and said Ciccolo would be a risk to the community if released.