Fugitive Accused Of Bay Area Bombings Captured In UK: FBI

PLEASANTON, CA — A man on the FBI’s Most Wanted List accused of setting off three bombs in Northern California was arrested in Wales Monday after more than 20 years on the run, according to British and American authorities.

Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was captured by North Wales Police, officers with the UK’s National Crime Agency, and the UK’s Counter Terrorism Police, the NCA said Tuesday. San Diego is being extradited to the United States to face charges.

San Diego, who was born in Berkeley, is charged with planting two bombs that exploded an hour apart on Aug. 28, 2003, and another one about a month later, according to the FBI. The first two exploded on the campus of Chiron, a biotechnology company in Emeryville. San Diego is also accused of setting off a bomb strapped with nails at Shaklee Corp., a nutritional company in Pleasanton, on Sept. 26, 2003.

No one was injured in the blasts, according to NBC News.

The FBI says San Diego was a vegan computer network specialist who had ties to “animal rights extremist groups,” and NBC News reported he bombed the companies because he believed they worked with labs that conducted animal experiments.

San Diego was indicted in the United States District Court, Northern District of California in July 2004, according to the FBI. There was a reward of $250,000 for information leading to his capture.

“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.”