Fugitive on FBI's most wanted list for two decades finally caught in UK

A fugitive who has been on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list for more than 20 years has been caught in Wales. Daniel Andreas San Diego was wanted in connection with two alleged animal rights-related bombings in San Francisco in 2003.

The 46-year-old was added to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2009. The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) said it arrested San Diego in the Conwy area of Wales on Monday, November 26.

FBI director Christopher Wray said: "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. 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."

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According to CBS News, San Diego allegedly planted two bombs at the offices of Chiron Inc in Emeryville, California, in August 2003. The first detonated early in the morning and the second was timed to go off an hour later - a tactic the FBI said could have been meant to kill or injure first responders.

The second bomb was found and cleared before it went off, Express reports. A month later San Diego allegedly planted another device wrapped in nails which failed to go off at a company in Pleasanton, California.

A Most Wanted poster issued by the FBI said he had 'ties to animal rights extremist groups' and was also 'known to follow a vegan diet, eating no meat or food containing animal products'. The FBI said San Diego previously worked as a computer specialist.

He was said to be 'skilled at sailing' and known to 'travel internationally'. Other details on the poster included that San Diego wore glasses and that he is six foot tall, with brown eyes and weighed about 11 stone.

The suspect was also said to have a tattoos of an 'image of burning hillsides in the centre of his chest with the words "It only takes a spark" printed in a semicircle below'. San Diego reportedly had a tattoo of 'burning and collapsing buildings on the sides of his abdomen and back and a single leafless tree rising from a road in the centre of his lower back'.

The FBI alleged San Diego was known to carry a gun and that he should be 'considered armed and dangerous'.