Leesburg man captured

after tipster calls ‘AMW’

One of two men suspected in a home improvement scam was captured in Florida after the television program “America’s Most Wanted” aired a story about the scheme.

Police said two men posed as licensed contractors to con a woman into paying $90,000 for a home improvement project. The suspects took the money and ran, police said. They were suspected of swindling more than half-a-million dollars in similar scams in Northern Virginia, Silver Spring and Germantown.