The US neighborhood watch volunteer charged with shooting dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin is back behind bars after a Florida judge revokes his bail.
The judge on Friday ordered George Zimmerman to return to jail after prosecutors argued that he had misled the court about having no money, despite tens of thousands of dollars sitting in online fundraising accounts.
Minutes after his client turned himself in and was escorted back to a solitary cell in handcuffs, defense attorney Mark O'Mara told reporters he planned to seek a hearing to secure his client's freedom again.
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The attorney said he is "just hoping the judge will give us an audience and we can further explain away why what happened seems to have happened."
Seminole County Sheriff Donald Eslinger told reporters that Zimmerman was "quiet and cooperative," as he was booked Sunday.
He was to have "a new mugshot taken and would be fingerprinted again, too. He will be kept in administrative confinement with a cell to himself, the same arrangement as before," Eslinger told reporters.
Zimmerman faces second degree murder charges in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was returning home from a late night run to a convenience store when he was shot following a confrontation with the volunteer security guard.
The judge in April set Zimmerman's bond at $150,000, but prosecutors say that figure relied on "false representations and statements" by the defendant and his wife.
As a condition of his bond, Zimmerman surrendered to authorities a passport that expired in May 2012. But prosecutors say he failed to disclose a second passport, reportedly obtained two weeks after he shot Martin.
O'Mara said he understood that the veracity of Zimmerman's story might have been dealt a blow if the court feels it had been deliberately misled, but insisted it was a misunderstanding he believes can be cleared up in court.
"I don't think it addresses the case specifically. Certainly there is a credibility question that now needs to be rehabilitated by explaining away what they were thinking when they did what they did if that's what happened. We'll address it," O'Mara told reporters.
Zimmerman's return to jail represents just the latest twist in a high-profile case that has stoked racial tensions in the United States.
The shooting in the central Florida city of Sanford set off a wave of protests because police initially refused to take legal action against Zimmerman, 28, accepting his assertion that he shot Martin in self-defense.
On his website earlier Sunday, O'Mara wrote in a posting that Zimmerman's defense team coordinated his re-arrest with the Sanford Police Department "to ensure Mr Zimmerman's security."
"While out on bond, Mr Zimmerman has been living in a secure, undisclosed location as there are significant threats against his life," added the attorney.
