PITTSBURGH - Calling him a flight risk and a danger to the community, a federal judge has ordered the continuing imprisonment of a Mercer man accused of threatening the FBI over social media.

The order came Thursday in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh, where 46-year-old Adam Bies pleaded not guilty to a 14-count indictment that includes seven counts of making interstate threats and seven counts of influencing or retaliating against a federal officer by threat.

Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan signed an order stating that no conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of any other person and the community or that Bies will appear for future hearings.

According to the indictment handed up by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, Bies made murder threats to injure and assault FBI agents on far-right social media site Gab in response to the raid of Former President Donald Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago last week.

Bies is accused of making several posts on Gab with threatening messages to FBI agents like "If you work for the FBI, you deserve to die" and "Come and get me, you piece of [expletive] feds. I'm going to [expletive] slaughter you."

The order would keep Bies in federal custody until his trial.

The judge gave attorneys until October 3 to file pretrial motions in the case.

The law provides for a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, or both if convicted.