One of the FBI's most wanted terrorist suspects was captured while hiding in Britain after being on the run for more than two decades, federal authorities announced Tuesday.
Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was arrested in Wales on Monday in connection with the 2003 animal welfare pipe bombing in San Francisco, authorities said.
“The arrest of Daniel San Diego after more than 20 years as a fugitive from two San Francisco-area bombings is a sign that the FBI will continue to find you, no matter how long it takes,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “This shows that accountability will be held,” he said in a statement of praise. his capture.
“There is a right way and a wrong way to express your opinion in our country, and resorting to violence and destruction of property is not the right way.”
San Diego has long been accused of detonating two homemade pipe bombs at Chiron Corp., a biotechnology company in Emeryville, on Aug. 28, 2003.
He then allegedly sent a nail-laced bomb that detonated on September 26, 2003 at Shaklee, a nutritional food company in Pleasanton.
Federal authorities say he targeted the two companies because of their ties to laboratories that conducted animal testing.
San Diego was listed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list in 2009 after federal authorities linked him to animal rights extremist groups.
At one point, they were offering a $250,000 reward for his capture.
