CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has ordered the detention of former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds after finding Reynolds’ proposed place of residence while on bail in a tax case to be unacceptable.

U.S. District Judge John Darrah ordered Reynolds taken into custody Wednesday after determining that the proposed residence would be too close to a school or playground for Reynolds to stay there on bail with electronic monitoring.

The former Illinois congressman faces misdemeanor tax evasion charges and has residency restrictions due to a 1995 conviction for having had sex with an underage campaign worker.

He previously failed to show up to a hearing in the tax case, saying caring for his ailing daughter in South Africa. He was arrested in Atlanta this month after arriving on a flight from Johannesburg.