An animal rights extremist believed to be behind two bombings in Northern California more than two decades ago was captured in Wales on Monday, authorities said.
FBI Director Christopher Wray celebrated the arrest of 46-year-old Daniel Andreas San Diego, saying Tuesday that the suspect will finally be held “accountable” for his alleged acts of “violence and destruction.”
“The arrest of Daniel San Diego after more than two decades on the run 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,” Wray said in a statement.
San Diego has been linked to two homemade pipe bombs that went off on Aug. 28, 2003, at Chiron Corp., a biotech company in Emeryville, across the Bay from San Francisco.
He is also accused of sending a “nail-tied bomb” that went off on Sept. 26, 2003, at a food company, Shaklee Corp., in nearby Pleasanton.
The FBI believed that San Diego, a native of Berkeley, bombed the companies because they had collaborated with another laboratory that had conducted animal testing.
“There is a right way and a wrong way to express your opinion in our country, and turning to violence and destruction of property is not the right way,” Wray added.
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