From GMA News (Apr 8): AFP: NPA leader arrested in Davao City
A ranking leader of the communist New People's Army was arrested Tuesday night in Davao City, the Armed Forces of the Philippines said Wednesday.
In a post on its Facebook page, the AFP said Vincent Estrada (a.k.a. Dennis Montecillo or Bords, Brod or Oban) was arrested at a checkpoint.
The AFP described him as the head of the NPA's Southern Mindanao Regional Committee's Regional Operational Command Regional Instructor’s Bureau.
Combined operatives of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division and the Philippine National Police's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group were involved in the arrest.
Estrada was arrested at a Task Force Davao checkpoint in Barangay Sirawan, Toril, Davao City at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday. He was aboard an Isuzu Bighorn sport utility vehicle (BDV-864) with a certain Zacarias Delos Santos Mancia Jr.
Recovered from them were a cal-.45 pistol, two fragmentation grenades, one laptop, five mobile phones, subversive documents and personal belongings.
The government forces served an arrest warrant against him for kidnapping and serious illegal detention before Regional Trial Court Branch 3 in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley.
Following the arrest, the two were placed under the CIDG Region 11's custody.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/466186/news/regions/afp-npa-leader-arrested-in-davao-city
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