Daniel Andreas San Diego biography: 10 things about Berkeley, California native

CAPTURED MOST WANTED TERRORIST#FBI Director Wray says Daniel San Diego's arrest after 20+ years as a fugitive for two San Francisco bombings shows the Bureau’s commitment to justice, stressing that violence is never the right way to express views. https://t.co/a759SMivCz pic.twitter.com/9C6MnUvKZI

— FBI (@FBI) November 26, 2024

Who is Daniel Andreas San Diego?

Daniel Andreas San Diego is an American man born Berkeley, California, United States and raised in San Rafael, California. He attended Terra Linda High School in Terra Linda, San Rafael and the College of Marin in Kentfield, California.

San Diego, a skilled sailer, worked at KSRH, a radio station in San Rafael, and as a computer network specialist. His father Ed San Diego, born in 1946, was the city manager of Belvedere, California.

As an animal liberationist and a straight edge vegan environmentalist, Daniel had ties to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), an international animal rights campaign to close down Europe’s largest contract animal-testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). He is known to follow a vegan diet.

Daniel is 6’0″ tall. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He was allegedly involved in the planting of two sophisticated homemade bombs exploded around an hour apart on August 28, 2023 at the Chiron Corporation in Emeryville, California.
2. He was allegedly involved in the planting of the bomb that exploded on September 26, 2003 at the Shaklee Corporation in Pleasanton, California.
3. On October 6, 2003, he parked his green Honda on Market Street in San Francisco, California, got out of the car and vanished into a transit station while the Federal Bureau of Investigation was closing in on him.
4. In July 2004, he was indicted in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, which is headquartered in San Francisco.
5. On April 21, 2009, he became the first person suspected of domestic terrorism to be added to the FBI’s list of the most wanted terrorists.
6. On December 13, 2013, the FBI sought to renew interest in the manhunt for him.
7. On February 28, 2014, the FBI started featuring him on multiple billboards in the U.S.
8. On February 9, 2024, he turned 46.
9. On November 25, 2024, National Crime Agency officers arrested him at a property in a rural area next to woodland in Conwy, Wales, United Kingdom.
10. On November 26, 2024, he appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London, England, U.K. and was ordered held in custody.