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A man who unknowingly sold his rural Welsh home to an individual who turned out to be on the FBI’s most wanted list has said it was the ideal location “if you wanted to keep your head down”. In August 2023, Daniel Andreas San Diego bought the house near Llanrwst for £425,000 using the name Danny Webb while he was on the run. He had a $250,000 (£199,000) bounty on his head for his suspected involvement in two bombings in San Francisco in 2003. On 24 May 2021, he was arrested by North Wales Police in a village, Maenan, which is about 10 miles (16km) from Conwy.
Aled Evans said that Mr San Diego offered £15,000 above the asking price for the house in question, called Llidiart y Coed. Evans said that when he first met with San Diego, the latter seemed quite excited about the woodland at the back of the house, as he was into his mountain biking. It is a white villa with a balcony that provides striking views of rolling hills and a well-manicured garden. When the BBC visited the house, pans and crockery were still spread over the kitchen sink and worktop, with a message left on a slate board on the garden path. San Diego, who had lived there for some time, was in no hurry to make the place his own, and all the signs suggested it was a home that had been left in a hurry.
The area where the house is located is a sprawling community of farms and isolated cottages, many of which are now holiday homes or holiday lets. Two residents living closeby reported no contact with the wanted man who had been on the run for 20 years. The house is along an unmade track on a public footpath through the wood, on what Evans described as “quite a busy” path. San Diego was an animal rights extremist involved in a series of bombings in San Francisco. He became the first “domestic terrorist” to be added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. The last sighting of him by the FBI was in 2003 when he was believed to be in downtown San Francisco.
San Diego’s solicitor did not ask for planning checks or any other requests typically made during house purchases, arousing suspicions in some residents. Notwithstanding this, Evans
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