One of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, a suspected animal rights extremist named Daniel Andreas San Diego who U.S. law enforcement suspects is responsible for bombings in the San Francisco area, was arrested in Britain after more than 20 years on the run from the law, the Associated Press reports. San Diego was arrested Monday in a rural area in northern Wales, the National Crime Agency said, and is charged in the U.S. with planting two bombs that exploded about an hour apart in the early morning of Aug. 28, 2003, on the campus of a biotechnology company in Emeryville, California. He’s also accused of setting off another bomb with nails strapped to it at a nutritional products company in Pleasanton, California, a month later. The bombings didn’t injure anyone, but authorities said the bomb at the biotechnology company was intended to harm first responders.
“Daniel San Diego’s arrest after more than 20 years as a fugitive for two bombings in the San Francisco area shows that no matter how long it takes, the FBI will find you and hold you accountable,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “There’s a right way and a wrong way to express your views in our country, and turning to violence and destruction of property is not the right way.” In 2009, San Diego became the first person suspected of domestic terrorism to be added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List. A reward of $250,000 (200,000 pounds) was offered for information leading to his arrest. Photos of him appeared on billboards from California to New York, including Times Square, the FBI said. He was featured on the TV program “America’s Most Wanted” several times.
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