A MAN who sold his North Wales home to someone who turned out to be a suspected terrorist wanted by the FBI for more than 20 years says it was "the perfect place to hide".
Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was one of the agency’s “most wanted fugitives” after two bombings in the San Francisco area of California in 2003.
San Diego was detained by officers from the National Crime Agency, supported by Counter Terrorism Policing and North Wales Police, at a property in a rural area next to woodland near Llanrwst on Monday.
San Diego had paid £425,000 for the house in August 2023 using the name Danny Webb.
Former owner of the property Aled Evans spoke to BBC Wales Breakfast after the news broke this week.
"He was quite excited because there was a big woodland at the back, he was into his mountain biking and that's what sold it to him, apparently," Mr Evans said
"It sounded like the ideal place he wanted - but he wanted it for other reasons."
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He also told the BBC that "Danny" was excited about using the nearby woodland to ride his mountain bike.
Speaking to BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast, Mr Evans said: "It was a perfect place to hide and he was besotted with the view from the house."
San Diego appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, where extradition proceedings began.
The FBI said San Diego, who was born in Berkeley, California, has “ties” to an animal rights extremist group and there was a reward of 250,000 dollars (£199,000) for information leading directly to his arrest.
On August 28 2003, two bombs exploded approximately one hour apart on the campus of a biotechnology corporation in Emeryville, the agency said.
Then, on September 26 2003, one bomb strapped with nails exploded at a nutritional products corporation in Pleasanton, a wanted poster read.
San Diego was indicted in the United States District Court, Northern District of California, in July 2004 over his alleged involvement, the FBI said.
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