BURLINGTON, Vt. – The person charged with killing his mom at sea throughout a 2016 fishing journey off the coast of New England in a plot to inherit tens of millions of {dollars} will stay detained pending trial, a federal choose in Vermont dominated Tuesday.

U.S. District Courtroom Decide Geoffrey Crawford denied Nathan Carman’s request to be launched, saying he’s a flight danger and potential hazard as a result of seriousness of the fees, lack of sturdy household, employment or group connections “and his involvement with firearms and the continuing feud together with his household” over his late grandfather’s inheritance.

Crawford mentioned the proof relating to the lack of his mom at sea, and “the acrimonious dispute” with kin over the inheritance, in addition to his buy of AR-15 sort weapons “are proof that this can be a unstable scenario.”

Carman, 28, of Vernon, was charged in Could with homicide and fraud within the killing of his mom, Linda Carman of Middletown, Connecticut, throughout a fishing journey by which his boat sank. He was discovered floating in a raft and rescued eight days after departing from a Rhode Island marina. He pleaded not responsible in his mom’s loss of life.

Prosecutors even have accused Carman of killing his grandfather, John Chakalos, who they are saying was shot in his residence in Windsor, Connecticut, in 2013 as a part of a scheme to acquire cash and property from his grandfather’s property. Carman has not been charged in that case and has denied any involvement in his grandfather’s loss of life.