US EPA Captures Top Woman Eco-Crook

Everyone’s heard the phrase “Most Wanted.” In the US these two words have long been the title of a television show aimed at involving the public in capturing fugitives. (See America's Most Wanted)

When you hear the phrase, you think of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, not the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA.

Get ready for a surprise: the US EPA has its own “most wanted” list and recently the first woman to earn the dubious distinction of making that list, Albania Deleon, was captured.Albania Deleon

Make that recaptured.

As this Consumer Reports story notes, Deleon was captured and convicted in 2008 but managed to escape. She was recently recaptured and sentenced to more than seven years in prison and three years probation for having illegally certified individuals as having had asbestos removal training when they had not.