‘It’s a sleepy little place’: disbelief in north Wales after dramatic arrest of US terror suspect

Daniel Andreas San Diego had been a fugitive from the FBI for two decades before he was found in Maenan village

Maenan, in north Wales, is not a place where very much happens. But earlier this week armed police descended on this tiny settlement, leaving neighbours in “disbelief”.

They learned that a man they had sometimes seen near his home on the outskirts of the woods was in fact one of the FBI’s most wanted men.

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