BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Yugoslav authorities ordered a haggard Slobodan Milosevic held for 30 days as they considered the evidence behind charges of corruption and abuse of power stemming from his ruinous 13-year rule.

The former president surrendered before dawn yesterday, ending a chaotic 26-hour armed standoff during which he reportedly brandished a pistol and threatened to kill himself and members of his family.

Milosevic pleaded innocent and was appealing the detention order, said his lawyer, Toma Fila. "He decided to defend himself. He will speak up and tell the truth," Fila said.

Despite months of international pressure to have him extradited to the U.N. war crimes tribunal, which indicted him for crimes against humanity after his brutal crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999, officials insisted he first would be tried at home for ruining the country. But they held out the possibility of a later trial by the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

"We are expecting him soon. It will be Milosevic in The Hague in 2001," tribunal spokeswoman Florence Hartmann said yesterday. Another spokesman, Jim Landale, said Yugoslavia had a "binding obligation" to turn him over.

Bundled into a police car, Milosevic was brought to Belgrade"s Central Prison early yesterday. Local television showed the iron gates sliding shut behind him.

During the preceding standoff, Milosevic"s loyal bodyguards who barricaded themselves in his luxury villa had sprayed gunfire at police charging the compound Saturday. Police regrouped and the government sent in negotiators to persuade Milosevic to give himself up and avoid a bloody confrontation. Outside, hundreds of his supporters gathered to taunt police with screams of "Slobo! Slobo!"

As police pulled on woolen masks early yesterday in an apparent preparation for a second assault, a convoy of vehicles suddenly sped through the villa gates. Word came soon after that Milosevic had surrendered but not before displaying a gun during the nightlong negotiations and pledging at one point to die rather than be taken, according to an account by the Serbian interior minister, Dusan Mihajlovic.

Just before he was whisked away, his 32-year-old daughter, Marija, fired several gunshots. A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said she was apparently aiming at a government negotiator. There were no injuries.

Justice officials said Milosevic who as president enjoyed unrivaled deference and luxury would be treated no better than any other prisoner.

"He has his own room," said Vladan Batic, justice minister of Serbia, the dominant Yugoslav republic.

"He will be given food, allowed visitors, to have his own clothes and footwear, money, books, newspapers. He will not be subjected to any kind of physical harassment, no psychological pressure."