Ex-activist says FBI offered him deal to inform on fugitive arrested in Wales

A former animal rights activist who was on the run from the FBI for more than seven years claims that he was offered a deal to inform on one of the organisation’s most wanted fugitives who was arrested this week in Wales.

Peter Young, 47, who now lives in Boulder, Colorado, went on the run after being indicted in 1998 over a string of fur farm raids across three states the previous year. He was jailed in the US for two years in 2005 after spending years hiding from the FBI in the UK.

He said the agency had since twice sought information from him about Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, who has been on the FBI’s “most wanted terrorists” list for almost two decades for his alleged involvement in two office building bombings in San Francisco in 2003.

The entrance to the house above Maenan in Conwy, north Wales, where it is believed one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested.

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San Diego was arrested in Maenan, between Conwy and Betws-y-Coed, on Monday, with officers from the UK’s National Crime Agency and North Wales police acting on a request from the FBI.

The agency said he was an “animal rights extremist”, who is alleged to have been involved in two explosions on the campus of a San Francisco biotechnology firm in August 2003, and a bombing at a nutritional products company in the same city a month later.