BATON ROUGE — District Attorney Hillar Moore has asked a judge to force an electronic monitoring company to hand over more documents related to its supervision of a rap performer who, according to court records, had hundreds of violations to his bond conditions.
Ashtin Ursin, who performs as MMY ASH, has two criminal cases pending in Baton Rouge. In January 2025, he was arrested on drug and gun charges. He posted a $45,700 bond. That bond required him to have electronic monitoring, but not an ankle monitor, court records show.
He was arrested again in July 2025 on more drug and gun charges after records show police searched a hotel suite where he was staying.
At the request of the district attorney’s office, a judge revoked the first bond because of the second arrest. In February, a judge lifted the hold Ursin was on, allowing him to be released on bond.
He posted $180,100 bond on Feb. 20 and was released. He was placed on house arrest and required to have a GPS monitor on his ankle. He was allowed to leave home for court, work, school, church and medical appointments, court records show.
At a March 31 bond review hearing, the court changed his bond condition from house arrest around the clock to house arrest from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., with exceptions for medical appointments, court dates, church and work at his music studio, court records show.
The district attorney’s office said the address he provided for his studio is the Music Factory on Greenwell Springs Road. State incorporation records show the Music Factory’s registered agent is Ursin’s bail bond provider, Winter Anderson. She also has a party venue called Shaggy’s Clubhouse that operates at the same address.
In addition to Ursin’s charges in East Baton Rouge Parish, he also faces trial next month in a gang-related killing. Ursin and two other men are charged with second-degree murder and a host of related charges in the 2023 shooting death of Jasper Dorsey Jr. Court documents in the case claim that Ursin is a member of the 400 gang from Convent and that he was a participant in the murder of Dorsey, a member of a different gang.
Ursin has been in federal custody since April 29, having been indicted in federal court a week earlier on possession with intent to distribute tapentadol and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Those federal charges are from his July 2025 arrest in Baton Rouge. Ascension Parish court records indicate that he is being held in St. Tammany Parish jail.
A day before the U.S. Marshals picked up Ursin, a district attorney’s office investigator learned about a jail phone call between Ursin and David Catherine, a murder suspect and alleged member of the Bleedas gang. All calls from inmates at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison are recorded, and the recording indicated that Ursin had not been following the bond restrictions.
“During that call, Ursin, who was out of jail under supervision, indicated he had just returned from Hammond, LA and that he had been in Houston, TX for four days prior,” a motion for the additional records said.
Monitoring records
At that point, Moore requested and quickly received records from Home Bound monitoring showing that in the weeks prior to his arrest by U.S. Marshals, he traveled to or spent time in Houston, Hammond, Breaux Bridge, Baton Rouge, Prairieville, Gonzales, Convent, Rayne, Ponchatoula and Welch.
“The Defendant was present at many of these locations during the night and outside of his curfew hours,” the motion said.
The “movement reports” Home Bound provided show starting address and time, stop time, travel duration and distance, maximum speed and and address.
“The State estimates that the defendant committed between 987 and 1,181 violations, including 106-125 unauthorized trips,” the motion said.
On at least nine evenings, the movement reports indicate that Ursin spent the night at “unapproved addresses,” the motion said. The reports also show 92 stops in a three-day trip to and around Houston.
Ursin was forbidden to leave the state without prior permission from the court.
Because the movement reports track speed, authorities also know that on six occasions, the vehicle Ursin was in drove over 100 miles an hour, in one case being tracked at 119 mph.
“These reported speeds raise significant public safety concerns and underscore the importance of obtaining complete information regarding the GPS ankle monitoring device and the accuracy of the data it generates,” the motion said.
The reports also have missing or inconsistent data. No data was provided by Home Bound for Ursin’s movements on March 20, the motion said. Several entries have incomplete or unknown addresses.
That’s among the reasons Moore asked the court for more detailed information.
Moore has been carefully tracking cases where he says electronic monitoring has been problematic. Ursin and Austin Jackson used the same bail bonding company and the same electronic monitoring company.
Austin Jackson bond
In May, Moore asked a judge to revoke the bond for Jackson, a rapper who performs as BBE AJ. He said Jackson’s social media documented him traveling to New York to perform. Moore alleged that Jackson had failed to respond to notifications from Shadow Track, a cell-phone-based monitoring system and had left the state without permission.
Defense attorney Ryan Beaulieu responded in court filings that the documents establishing Jackson’s bond did not include a restriction on out-of-state travel.
“Mr. Jackson is required to travel out of state on occasion to continue to make a living as he is a recording artist,” Beaulieu wrote. “In Mr. Jackson’s Uniform Order Fixing sheet (the document that lists bond conditions), there is a section which excludes him from traveling, but the section was not checked along with the others.”
At a hearing on May 27, a commissioner agreed with the defense and changed the bond restrictions going forward to restrict Jackson from leaving the state without prior approval. Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Jackson recently complied with that rule, seeing permission to travel to Austin, Texas to perform as a “special guest” at an event on June 6 and to then go to Houston June 7 for another performance.
“In no way is Mr. Jackson asking to go to Texas for other dealings other than to earn a living so that he is able to live on a day-to-day basis,” Beaulieu wrote in the request.
A commissioner approved the trip.
The effectiveness of bond monitoring has also been a concern of state lawmakers.
Lawmaker attention
The state legislature considered several bills and resolutions related to electronic monitoring in the most recent legislative session.
Lawmakers approved, and Gov. Jeff Landry has signed, a law that prohibits elected judges, district attorneys, sheriffs, chiefs of police, constables, marshals and members of their immediate families from having a financial interest in companies that provide electronic monitoring services.
The House passed a resolution asking the Department of Justice to review the laws and administrative procedures related to electronic monitoring “to identify efficiencies, deficiencies, and conflicts within the existing statutory framework.”
A separate concurrent resolution asked that the Department of Justice to examine outcomes for juveniles ordered to have electronic monitoring. That resolution noted the state does not have “centralized, comprehensive data available “on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring” for juvenile offenders.
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