Authorities nab island-hopping top NPA official

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MANILA, Philippines—He may have hopped across several islands, but his final destination is behind cold steel bars.

Members of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines captured Roy Erecre, the secretary of the Central Visayas Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army in Davao Wednesday morning.

Erecre and his girlfriend were island-hopping across the tourist destinations in the region before a joint committee from the Eastern Mindanao Command, Philippine Army, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, AFP Intelligence operatives, and Davao PNP apprehended them.

According to AFP Public Affairs Chief Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Zagala, Erecre was arrested by virtue of several non-bailable warrants of arrest.

Judith Jaron-Niog, Erecre’s girlfriend, was released later that day after getting questioned as authorities found no basis to hold her.

Zagala said that the joint operatives of the AFP and the PNP seized P352,000, a 16-Gigabyte flash drive, a mobile phone, and assorted documents and receipts.

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