Robert Durst was denied bail in a New Orleans court room on Monday afternoon after a judge deemed him to be a potential danger to others and a likely flight risk . The real . estate scion , who is awaiting extradition to California to face a first-degree murder . charge , appeared on . local weapons charges in Louisiana . Durst , 71 , who is being held in a psych prison ward , appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit with his head newly shaven and a surgery scar visible . He must remain in Louisiana on local weapons charges at least until his next court date on April 2 , Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell ruled . 'There is a substantial risk the defendant might flee , ' Cantrell said . Scroll down for videos . Murder suspect Robert Durst is seen with a newly-shaved head as he sits in a hearing in this court sketch in New Orleans on Monday . He was denied bail after the judge deemed him a flight risk and danger to others . Robert Durst grinned as he was escorted from Orleans Parish Criminal District Court to the Orleans Parish Prison after his arraignment on March 17 . He was denied bail on Monday and deemed a flight risk . Prosecutors said Durst was considered a flight risk after he dumped his cell phone on the way to New Orleans with five bags , ABC reported , and was found with a latex mask and bundles of cash in small bills . The 71-year-old , who has used aliases in the past , also had a Texas ID in a different name . Durst 's lawyer , Dick DeGuerin , did not seek bail on Monday but argued his client 's arrest and the search of his hotel room earlier this month in New Orleans were improper . Durst 's attorneys have said they plan to seek both to expedite his extradition to LA County , where he has been charged with the 2000 execution-style murder of longtime friend Susan Berman . The lawyers will also challenge the basis for his arrest on a Los Angeles County murder warrant earlier this month in New Orleans . The final installment of the HBO documentary , The Jinx : The . Life and Deaths of Robert Durst , broadcast evidence that Durst 's . handwriting appeared to match that of Berman 's likely killer . Susan Berman was found shot execution-style outside her home in LA in 2000 . Her friend , Robert Durst , was charged with her murder . The 71-year-old 's voice was then captured on a. microphone saying to himself that he had 'killed them all ' . Long a suspect in the disappearance of his wife , Kathleen . Durst , in 1982 in New York , Durst was acquitted in the . dismemberment killing of his male neighbor in Texas in 2003 . Durst is long estranged from his powerful family with its billion-dollar New York real estate holdings . The final HBO episode aired one day after Durst 's arrest at . a hotel in New Orleans , where he was staying under an assumed . name . He had in his possession more than $ 42,000 in cash , a. revolver , a stash of marijuana and a latex mask that could fit . over his neck and head , authorities have said . He had allegedly been withdrawing $ 9,000-a-day for more than a month . He also had an ID with the name , Everette Ward . FBI agents arrested Durst out of fear he would flee the . country , an FBI spokeswoman has said . They suggested that Durst may have been attempting to flee to Cuba , where direct , non-stop flights started from New Orleans last Saturday . Maps of New Orleans , Florida and Cuba were found in his hotel room , The New York Times reported . ABC reported that agents were unable to locate Durst in New Orleans and instead bumped into him in the lobby of a hotel . James O'Hern , an investigator for the local district attorney 's office , testified that authorities tracked Durst down after he placed two calls from a phone at the hotel to the voicemail on his personal phone . They also found a piece of paper in his room with a tracking number for a package that authorities later seized and found to contain $ 117,000 , O'Hern said . Durst faces local charges of one count of possession of a gun as a convicted felon and one count of possessing a weapon with a controlled substance . His lawyer , Dick DeGuerin , has expressed frustration with . the charges , saying he is eager to get Durst to California to . clear his name in Berman 's killing . Durst was transferred last week to a facility 70 miles . outside of New Orleans equipped to handle acutely mentally ill. inmates after the local sheriff 's office asserted he was . suicidal , a contention his lawyers disputed . Robert Durst 's attorney Dick DeGuerin pictured at court last week . He has said he is eager to get Durst to California and clear his name in Susan Berman 's killing .
Durst , who is awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge , appeared on local weapons charges in New Orleans on Monday . Prosecutors said he is a flight risk because he dumped his phone on the way to New Orleans and was found with fake ID , a latex mask and $ 42,000 . The murder suspect had 'maps of Cuba , Florida and New Orleans ' hich were used by police as they searched for him after he fled from Louisiana last week.