A woman who landed on the Environmental Protection Agency's fugitives list upon fleeing the United States after a criminal conviction has been captured in the Dominican Republic, the agency said Tuesday. Albania Deleon was convicted in November 2008 in Massachusetts on environmental and other charges related to a fraudulent asbestos training institute she ran there. She fled the state in March 2009, two days before her sentencing. Carrying a false identity card and having dyed her hair blond, she was arrested Saturday when Dominican agents pulled over her vehicle in Santo Domingo. The State Department had submitted an extradition request to the Dominican Republic after realizing she had left the country. Deleon, 41, is the first woman to be listed on the EPA's two-year-old fugitives list, which includes people wanted for crimes ranging from dumping oil or contaminated soil to importing vehicles that fail to meet U.S. emissions standards. She could face substantial jail time after extradition to the United States, given that she was convicted of 28 counts that carried penalties of five to 20 years, the EPA said. The trail of crimes goes back to roughly 2001, when Deleon began operating Environmental Compliance Training, a certified asbestos-removal training school in Methuen, Mass. Over the next five years, she granted hundreds of certificates to people who had taken no courses. The authorities estimated that 65 percent to 80 percent of those who received certificates from the school had not received the necessary training. Many of those were illegal immigrants who could not afford to take four days off from work to obtain their credentials. Environmental Compliance Training became Massachusetts' largest asbestos training business. Many of the graduates obtained jobs through a temporary staffing agency that Deleon also owned, the EPA said, and were sent out to do dangerous asbestos demolition work. She paid them under the table so she would not have to pay taxes or obtain workers' compensation insurance for them. She was convicted in federal court in 2008 on charges including fraud, hiring illegal immigrants, making false statements and procuring false payroll tax returns. The EPA created its most-wanted fugitives list, complete with mug shots, to draw more attention to environmental crime, which has been rising as agency regulation has expanded. Sixteen fugitives remain on that list, and five, including Deleon, are listed as former fugitives with the word 'captured' stamped on their mug shots. Stacy Kika, an EPA spokeswoman, declined to say whether the list had led to any tips that aided in Deleon's capture. 'Posting defendants on the fugitive website creates more visibility, thereby providing an opportunity for the public to provide information about their potential whereabouts and for law enforcement authorities to be aware that these individuals are wanted by the Department of Justice,' she said. 