'I sold my house to man on FBI's most wanted list'

A antheral who sold his agrarian location to idiosyncratic who turned retired to beryllium connected the FBI's astir wanted database has said it was the perfect determination "if you wanted to support your caput down".

Aled Evans said Daniel Andreas San Diego paid £425,000 for the location adjacent Llanrwst, Conwy, successful August 2023 utilizing the sanction Danny Webb.

On Monday, Mr San Diego - who had a $250,000 bounty connected his caput - was arrested successful agrarian Maenan aft 21 years connected the run pursuing 2 explosions successful San Francisco successful 2003 helium was suspected of being behind.

"He was rather excited due to the fact that determination was a large woodland astatine the backmost helium was into his upland biking and that's what sold it to him, apparently," said Mr Evans.

"It sounded similar the perfect spot helium wanted - but helium wanted it for different reasons," helium told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.

Maenan sits conscionable disconnected the A470, 1 of the main roads moving done northbound Wales, astir 10 miles (16km) from Conwy.

The location successful question is simply a achromatic villa with a balcony offering striking views of rolling hills and a well-manicured garden.

Mr Evans said it was not "in the mediate of nowhere" but was on an unmade way connected "quite a busy" nationalist footpath done the wood.

He added that Mr San Diego offered £15,000 implicit the asking price.

"The time of the viewing helium spent sizeable clip connected the balcony looking astatine the presumption and that’s what sold it to him, apparently," Mr Evans said.

He told the BBC that Danny was excited astir utilizing the woodland astatine the backmost of the location for upland biking, but thought it was unusual that the purchaser did not look disquieted astir unfinished repair enactment to a damaged summertime house.

Mr Evans described Mr San Diego arsenic a likeable, quiescent antheral who told him his enactment successful IT had brought him to Wales.

He told BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast that helium saw Mr San Diego for astir 20 minutes connected the time helium moved in.

"He wasn’t successful a hurry and was precise chill astir the full situation," adding that the neighbours "never saw him".

He lone recovered retired astir Mr San Diego's apprehension aft a erstwhile neighbour phoned him to archer him the shocking news.

"It’s hasn’t sunk successful yet. But it hasn’t affected america of course. You couldn’t marque it up.

"It was a cleanable spot to fell and helium was besotted with the presumption from the house. His presumption for the foreseeable aboriginal won’t beryllium fractional arsenic good."

The FBI has accused Mr San Diego of being "an carnal rights extremist" progressive successful a bid of bombings successful San Francisco.

The archetypal bombing was successful August 2003 with 2 explosions an hr isolated connected the field of a biotechnology company, followed by a nail weaponry astatine a nutritional products institution a period later.

He became the archetypal "domestic terrorist" to beryllium added to the agency's astir wanted violent list, created by then-President George W Bush successful October 2001 successful the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Mr San Diego appeared connected the database alongside Osama Bin Laden, who is believed to person ordered the 9/11 attacks, and was killed by US forces successful Pakistan successful 2011.

Michael J Heimbach, the FBI’s adjunct manager of the counterterrorism division, said the fishy had committed "domestic acts of panic planned retired and perchance intended to instrumentality lives".

According to reports, the agency’s past sighting of him was successful 2003 erstwhile FBI agents were adjacent successful downtown San Francisco.

"He parked his car, got retired of his conveyance and started walking down the thoroughfare and, if I'm not mistaken, helium went into a Bart presumption and that was the past clip we've seen him," FBI cause David Johnson said successful 2013.