Jair Bolsonaro says hallucinations from meds made him tamper with ankle monitoring

Bolsonaro, 70, was arrested and kept in a cell at the country’s federal police headquarters in the capital, Brasilia, early Saturday.

A four-member panel of the court unanimously ruled that Bolsonaro should remain under preemptive arrest.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who issued the arrest warrant on Saturday, considered Bolsonaro to be a flight risk. The former president is set to begin serving his 27-year jail sentence for attempting a coup to remain in office after his 2022 election defeat to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.