Status of Former EPA Fugitives

On this page, we provide information about the status of former fugitives. EPA removes fugitives from this web page 12 months after the final adjudication of their case. Since launching the EPA Fugitives website, 5 fugitives have been captured and 2 fugitives have surrendered.

To view a complete listing of EPA Fugitives still at-large, please visit the EPA Fugitives web page.

2010

Albania Deleon – Sentenced

2009

Larkin Baggett – Defendant appealed sentencing

photograph of captured fugitive DeMatteo

Albania Deleon

On November 19, 2008, Deleon was convicted in Federal District Court, District of Massachusetts, on twenty-eight felony charges related to her role as President of Environmental Compliance Training (ECT), a certified asbestos training provider.
Deleon, through ECT, issued fraudulent asbestos training certificates to hundreds of individuals who did not complete the training mandated by state and federal law.
Deleon and others significantly benefited from the illegal enterprise by selling fraudulent training certificates and making false statements to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Additionally, she employed the fraudulently licensed workers through her temporary employment agency, Methuen Abatement Staffing.
An arrest warrant was issued for Deleon for violating post-trial release conditions. She additionally failed to appear for her sentencing hearing that was scheduled for March 23, 2009.
Deleon is a naturalized United States Citizen who is originally from the Dominican Republic.
Albania DeLeon was arrested on October 30, 2010 in the Dominican Republic (DR), nineteen months after she fled.
She waived extradition and was returned to the United States on November 10, 2010. She had her initial appearance in U.S. District Court on November 12, 2010. Sentencing was originally set for December 8, 2010.
Sentencing has again been rescheduled for June 8, 2011 due to the assignment of a new lawyer.
Sentencing scheduled for September 9, 2011.
September 13, 2011 - Deleon was sentenced to 87 months incarceration, ordered to pay $1.2 million restitution to the IRS, $370,000 restitution to AIM Insurance and serve 36 months probation upon her release from prison.

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Larkin Baggett

On September 19, 2007, Baggett, owner/operator of Chemical Consultants, Inc. of North Salt Lake, Utah, was indicted in the District of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, on four felony counts of violating the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Title 42 Section 6928(d)(2)(A) and two felony counts of federal Clean Water Act Title 33 Section 1319(c)(2)(A).
Chemical Consultants, Inc. was a company that mixes and sells chemical products for use in various industries and was a large quantity generator of hazardous waste.
Chemical Consultants, Inc. is alleged to have dumped, without a permit, hazardous waste on to a gravel-covered portion of property leased to his business in 2003 and 2005.
He is also alleged to have dumped chemical wastes into the sanitary sewer in 2004 and 2005 which caused a total of 22 pass-through events at the South Davis Sewer District in Davis County, Utah.
It is alleged that he disposed of waste from sulfuric acids, hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids that he used to produce products his company sold.
Baggett was arrested on the above charges on September 20, 2007, by federal EPA-CID special agents and the Utah Attorney General’s Office agents.
He was subsequently released from federal custody with conditions pending his trial.
On April 22, 2008, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Baggett for violating the conditions of his release pending his trial.
His trial was scheduled to begin on June 2, 2008.
Baggett was taken into Federal custody on March 13, 2009 in Florida.
On April 16 2009, Baggett was charged by a federal Grand Jury in Miami with assaulting law enforcement officers and illegally possessing eight firearms while he was a fugitive from the District of Utah on an environmental crimes prosecution.
July 6, 2009, Baggett pled guilty to possessing eight firearms, including assault rifles, while a fugitive from justice in Utah, three Counts of assaulting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Special Agents, and one count related to assaulting a Monroe County deputy sheriff, all using a deadly and dangerous weapon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111 and 922(g). Baggett also entered guilty pleas on two of the Counts brought against him in Utah (transferred to South Florida pursuant to Rule 20 of the Federal Criminal Rules), which charged he violated an effluent standard, pretreatment standard, and prohibition, and that he illegally disposed of hazardous waste without a permit, in violation of Title 33, United States Code, Sections 1319(c)(2)(A), 1317(d), 40 C.F.R. § 403.5(b)(2), Title 42, United States Code, Section 6928(d)(2)(A), and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2.
Sentencing is scheduled for October 14, 2009
On October 14, 2009, Larkin Baggett was sentenced to a total of 20 years incarceration: the statutory maximum for the environmental counts (3 years for Clean Water Act crimes and 5 years for hazardous waste crimes) and 12 years for illegally possessing firearms and aggravated assault on law enforcement officers.
On July 9, 2010, Baggett appealed his sentencing.
Baggett's appeal hearing is scheduled for February 28, 2012.