Judge detains Ryan Routh after prosecutors say Trump stakeout was an 'assassination attempt'

A federal magistrate ordered Ryan Routh detained until trial on gun charges over a golf-course incident with former President Donald Trump that prosecutors said Routh described in a handwritten note as “an assassination attempt” that failed.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe ordered Routh detained without bond after a three-hour hearing in Florida, where federal prosecutors linked him to the rifle found at Trump International Golf Club. Routh’s cellphone was tracked near the golf course and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in the month before his arrest Sept. 15, according to a court filing by prosecutors.