WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Federal prosecutors are looking to bring a charge of attempted assassination against the man accused of hiding with a gun at a golf course where former President Donald Trump was playing golf in Florida earlier this month, a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney said in court on Sept. 23.

Prosecutor Mark Dispoto told U.S. Magistrate Judge Ryon M. McCabe at a federal courthouse in West Palm Beach that the DOJ will ask a grand jury to bring the more-serious charge, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. Ryan Routh, who was arrested on Sept. 15, currently faces two federal gun charges.

McCabe granted DOJ prosecutors’ request to hold Routh. The federal judge agreed with prosecutors’ arguments that Routh posed a danger to the community, that he posed a flight risk, and that he should be kept behind bars until his trial on federal weapons charges. The judge cited Routh’s travel history to Ukraine and a handwritten note that prosecutors allege was written by Routh, declaring that he tried to assassinate Trump.

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