New Orleans, Louisiana rapper C-Murder has been ordered to remain in jail after it was alleged he broke the rules of his house arrest.
During a court appearance on Wednesday authorities revealed that they lost signal from the rapper's monitoring device for around 10 minutes early on Monday. According to the Associated Press, Sheriff's deputy Mike Dawson testified that he had been notified by an electronic monitor that the rapper had left his house. When Dawson called the house, C-Murder's fiancé Sabrina Green answered the phone and then handed it to him. Dawson claims that while he was talking to the rapper on a portable phone he heard the monitor reacting as if he had just re-entered the house.
Attorney Ron Rakosky claimed the rapper had been asleep when the signal was lost and blamed an equipment malfunction.
Miller is set to face trial for a second-degree murder charge relating to the shooting of 16-year-old Steve Thomas, who was killed in a 2002 nightclub brawl in Harvey.
C-Murder, real name Corey Miller, had been placed under house arrest as part of the terms of his $500,000 bond.
During Wednesday's hearing, State District judge Hans Liljeberg ordered that the rapper must remain behind bars and doubled his bond after it was reported he had left his residence for a few minutes on several occasions since October.
"I don't think it's terribly unjust for the defendant to await trial across the street," Liljeberg said.
