Former Yugoslav president Mr Slobodan Milosevic was remanded in custody for 30 days by an investigating judge today, Serbia's BK television said, citing the former Yugoslav president's lawyer.
"The judge set a period of 30 days of custody for Slobodan Milosevic," said a reporter outside Belgrade's central prison where Milosevic is being held.
Milosevic was arrested earlier today in Belgrade bringing an end to a 26-hour armed stand-off.
He was arrested just before dawn local time and is now in Belgrade's Central Prison.
Mr Branislav Ivkovic, a close aide to Milosevic, said he surrendered voluntarily "to include himself in the legal process".
The arrest came after an unsuccessful attempt to seize Milosevic, who has been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal and accused by his own government of corruption and abuse of power.
Mr Ivkovic, who was in the compound during the arrest, urged people to "give the judges a chance to hand out the final verdict" on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
Four to five pistol shots were heard from inside the villa before the announcement, and it is unclear whether anyone was injured.
Earlier, an official said Milosevic had declared he would rather die than surrender.
The arrest came after Yugoslavia's president Vojislav Kostunica said Milosevic's options had run out and that he could not escape being brought to justice.
The police action came the day after a deadline set by the US Congress for Yugoslavia to begin cooperating with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, which has indicted Milosevic for atrocities committed in his 1999 crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Washington had threatened Belgrade with a suspension of $50 million in economic aid yet to be disbursed for the current fiscal year.
Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic said the arrest was not intended to turn Milosevic over to the tribunal, "but to hand him over to an investigative judge under domestic laws."
PA