PLEASANTON, Calif. — A suspected animal rights extremist wished within the U.S. for bombings within the San Francisco space was arrested in Britain after greater than 20 years on the run from the regulation, officers mentioned Tuesday.
Daniel Andreas San Diego, one of many FBI’s most wished fugitives, was arrested Monday in a rural space in northern Wales, the Nationwide Crime Company mentioned. He was ordered held in custody after showing Tuesday in Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket and faces extradition.
San Diego, 46, is charged within the U.S. with planting two bombs that exploded about an hour aside within the early morning of Aug. 28, 2003, on the campus of a biotechnology firm in Emeryville. He is additionally accused of setting off one other bomb with nails strapped to it at a dietary merchandise firm in Pleasanton, a month later.
The bombings did not injure anybody, however authorities mentioned the bomb on the biotechnology firm was meant to hurt first responders.
A gaggle known as Revolutionary Cells-Animal Liberation Brigade claimed accountability for the bombings, citing the businesses’ ties to Huntingdon Life Sciences. Huntingdon was a goal of animal rights extremists due to its work with experimental medicine and chemical substances on animals whereas underneath contract for pharmaceutical, beauty and different firms.
San Diego is charged within the U.S. with planting two bombs that exploded about an hour aside on Aug. 28, 2003.
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“Daniel San Diego’s arrest after greater than 20 years as a fugitive for 2 bombings within the San Francisco space reveals that irrespective of how lengthy it takes, the FBI will discover you and maintain you accountable,” FBI Director Christopher Wray mentioned in a press release. “There is a proper manner and a incorrect technique to specific your views in our nation, and turning to violence and destruction of property just isn’t the best manner.”
In 2009, San Diego turned the primary particular person suspected of home terrorism to be added to the FBI’s Most Needed Terrorist Record. A reward of $250,000 was supplied for data resulting in his arrest.
Images of him appeared on billboards from California to New York, together with Instances Sq., the FBI mentioned. He was featured on the TV program “America’s Most Needed” a number of instances.
San Diego grew up in an upper-middle class suburb of Marin County north of San Francisco. His father was the town supervisor of close by Belvedere, a rich enclave.
San Diego had labored as a pc community specialist, was a talented sailor and was identified to hold a handgun, the FBI mentioned.
The FBI had San Diego underneath surveillance on Oct. 6, 2003 when he parked his automobile close to downtown San Francisco, and vanished right into a transit station – to not be seen once more.
There had been quite a few sightings reported world wide and investigators introduced searches at instances as far aside as Massachusetts and Hawaii.
The NCA mentioned it arrested San Diego at a property close to woods within the Conwy space of Wales, a coastal space some 5,000 miles from San Francisco. No different particulars had been offered.
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