Show to feature bomb suspect

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Aug 31, 2007

Daniel Andreas San Diego, an animal rights activist and federal fugitive wanted in connection with two East Bay bombings in 2003, will be featured again this weekend on Fox Network's "America's Most Wanted."

San Diego's case first was aired on the television program in March 2004, and again in June 2005; it will be featured a third time Saturday.

San Diego, now 29, in 2003 allegedly placed two bombs -- one that exploded Aug. 28 outside Chiron Corp. on Hollis Street in Emeryville, and another that exploded Sept. 26 outside Shaklee Corp. on Willow Road in Pleasanton. Nobody was hurt.

E-mail communiques passed through animal rights groups afterward said the companies were attacked because they had associated with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British laboratory firm that uses animals for testing and has become the target of an international activist movement, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Biotech firm Chiron said it had used Huntingdon in the past but no longer. Shaklee, a producer of vitamins, personal hygiene and household cleaning products, does no animal testing, but parent company Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has used Huntingdon's services.

The FBI offers a $250,000 reward for information leading directly to San Diego's arrest. He is 6 foot tall, weighs 160 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes; he wears sunglasses and is a strict vegan.

His body bears the following tattoos: a round shape about 5 inches in diameter in the color of burning hillsides and plains in the center of his chest; progressive scenes in black and white of destroyed and burned buildings on his left abdomen; a leafless tree in the center of his lower back; and burning yet still-standing buildings on the right side of his lower back.

The FBI says he possesses a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and is to be considered armed and dangerous, so he shouldn't be approached. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call their local police or nearest FBI office.