Thomas Markle is being sent to jail after he allegedly cut off the ankle bracelet monitoring his movements under house arrest.
The First Assistant US Attorney in the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, said Markle - the father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex - "cut the bracelet" off at 1.45am on Tuesday (6.45am UK Time).
At a hearing in Tampa, US Magistrate Judge Lindsay Saxe Griffin, of the Middle District of Florida, ordered Markle to be detained and jailed without bond.
