Brazil's Supreme Court upheld Monday former President Jair Bolsonaro's incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor this weekend while under house arrest. A justice saw the action as an attempt to escape and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after being determined a "concrete flight risk" while under house arrest. The right-wing former Brazilian president was found guilty of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, but remains under house arrest pending appeals.

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld former President Jair Bolsonaro’s arrest, keeping him in police custody after he allegedly tampered with his ankle monitor using a soldering iron. Bolsonaro,

Shortly before he was expected to start serving a 27-year sentence, Brazil’s former president took a soldering iron to his tracking device.

Brazilian democracy has spent the past three years in a near-permanent state of tension – a full-body clench against an ex-president who refused to accept defeat. On Saturday morning, those muscles tightened again.

A panel of four Supreme Court judges unanimously upheld on Monday a decision to incarcerate Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro was arrested after he broke his ankle monitor. This happened right after his son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, called for a vigil outside the former president’s house. The supreme court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, said Bolsonaro’s escape would have been “facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his son”.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday that medication prescribed for his chronic hiccups brought on hallucinations, causing him to tamper with his ankle monitor.

Brazil is witnessing an explosive twist in the Bolsonaro coup-plotting saga. Former President Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after allegedly attempting to tamper with his court-ordered ankle monitor,