Daniel Andreas San Diego, an animal rights activist, has joined the ranks of the FBI most wanted.
The 31-year-old vegan was added to the FBI America’s Most Wanted Terrorists list on Tuesday, marking the first time an animal rights activist has made the list.
San Diego is charged with bombing the Chiron and Shaklee Corporations offices in California in 2003, causing extensive property damage, but no deaths.
According to authorities, the strict vegan used sophisticated homemade bombs using “kitchen timer style mechanical timer devices” to bomb the facilities in Emeryville and Pleasanton, California, because he believed the companies were using animal-testing labs.
A group called “The Revolutionary Cells-Liberation Brigade” claimed responsibility for both bombings.
San Diego, a computer network specialist sports several elaborate tattoos — one in the center of his chest of a burning hillside and the words “It only takes a spark” in typewriter-style font, an abdominal tattoo showing burning and collapsing buildings, and a tattoo on his back featuring a leafless tree rising from a road above buildings that are burning but still standing.
FBI agents have pursued reports that San Diego was hiding in Costa Rica, and a report that he was spotted in rural southern Virginia.