A TOP leader of the communist rebel movement in Surigao del Norte and two others were captured by government security forces on Monday afternoon during a pursuit operation in a remote village in Claver town in the said province, a police official said on Wednesday.

Supt. Michael Lozada, the spokesman for the Caraga police, in a report sent to Camp Crame in Quezon City (Metro Manila) identified the arrested New People’s Army leader in Surigao del Norte as Jonathan Cadaan Peñaflor alias “Jojo Peñaflor,” of legal age and a resident of Purok-7 in Barangay (village) Ladgaran in Claver town.