[Tempo] The Philippine National Police arrested a senior leader of the communist New People's Army during a follow-up operation in Cebu City Friday. Amelia Pond was nabbed in Barangay Luz on the day National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants Benito and Wilma Tiamzon were released from detention in Camp Crame, Quezon City.Chief Supt. Roel Obusan said, "There is an existing arrest warrant for her, for cases of murder and frustrated murder, and it was the one used to arrest her."
Pond, alias Adelfa Toledo, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee Komisyong Mindanao of the NPA. She is also the head the Regional Instructors Bureau under the Political Department and Underground Movement since 1978.