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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The Latest on the public drunkenness arrest of Peru’s former president (all times local):

2:20 p.m.

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Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo brushed off questions about his arrest on suspicion of public drunkenness during a radio interview.

Toledo also declined to discuss his detention with Peru’s RPP radio, saying “I’m not falling into that trap.”

San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Rosemerry Blankswade says Toledo was arrested at a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant Sunday and spent the night in jail before his release Monday morning.

Toledo was Peru’s president from 2001 to 2006 and has lived in California in recent years. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2017.

He is wanted in his home country on accusations of taking $20 million in bribes from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. He has denied wrongdoing.

While he was president, Toledo’s presidential aircraft became known as the “party plane” after a government official was caught on camera drunkenly singing a popular Spanish-language tune called “Pass me the Bottle” during a flight to Europe.