BOGOTA - (AP) -- Colombian security forces captured an urban rebel commander and 19 guerrillas,
                      authorities said Saturday.

                      Police arrested Jose Parmenidez Castro -- an alleged commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
                      Colombia, or FARC -- Saturday in Bogota, said Carolina Sanchez, a spokeswoman for the attorney
                      general's office.

                      Castro, 30, is the leader of the FARC's 51st Front, which is active in Cundinamarca province and is
                      wanted for kidnapping, extortion and attacks on the nation's infrastructure, police said.

                      Agents nabbed him in a poor Bogota neighborhood with the equivalent of $7,000 in cash.

                      Soldiers captured a group of FARC combatants Friday in Bucaramanga, 186 miles northeast of Bogota.
                      Many of them were making their way from the mountains to join FARC militia groups in the cities, army
                      spokesman Luis Hernandez said.

                      Rebel attacks have left large parts of this South American nation without electricity, water or telephone
                      service. In the latest attacks, FARC rebels Saturday downed an electrical pylon in Arauca province and a
                      phone tower in Meta province, the army said.

                      Soldiers on Saturday killed another six rebels during fighting throughout the country. One soldier was
                      injured.

                      The government broke off three-year peace talks with the FARC -- the nation's largest rebel army -- last
                      month and launched a military offensive into its former haven in southern Colombia. But there has been
                      little evidence of military success.

                      The rebels have bombed about 70 electrical towers since they began attacking Colombia's
                      infrastructure. There have been power outages in at least six provinces.