Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, July 17, 1990 TAG: 9007170146
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
He did it, according to officials with the state Division of Child Support Enforcement, in order to hide from his former wife - to whom he owes $16,500 in child support.
Authorities arrested Judge, who was No. 4 on Virginia's "10 Most Wanted" list of fathers who owe large amounts of unpaid child support, at his home in Minersville, Pa., Friday.
Judge, 35, faces extradition to Bedford County to stand trial on charges of failing to pay child support, according to Harry Wiggins, the division director.
"We've been looking for this guy for quite a while," Wiggins said Monday.
The machinist has been missing since February 1986, and authorities suspect that he spent time in New York before settling down in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, his ex-wife, Wendy, was left in Bedford County to support a 12-year-old son and a 16-year-old daughter on her own.
"My son and daughter know they're getting the bare necessities," Wendy Judge said in an interview shortly after her ex-husband was included on the "most wanted" list in November.
"They know that I struggle to make sure they get what they need," she said. Wendy Judge could not be reached for comment Monday.
She said earlier that her former husband paid child support sporadically after they were divorced about 10 years ago, but he had not paid anything for some time.
Judge was included on the second Top 10 list welfare officials have announced since they began a high-profile campaign against child-support dodgers.
Since the lists have been released, Wiggins said, about 60 percent of the suspects have been tracked down.
by CNB