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Coast Guard Capt. Warren Judge Receives Prestigious Black Engineer Of The Year Stars and Stripes Award
Missing 20-Year-Old Mom
Tampan, King High Gradu- ate and Elizabeth City State Uni- versity alumnus, Coast Guard Capt. Warren Judge, has been honored with the 2021 Black Engineer of the Year Stars and Stripes Award (BEYA). The BEYA celebrates achievements in science, technology, engineer- ing, and mathematics fields.
“I am truly humbled and hon- ored by this award. Being a pub- lic servant, this award is for the teams and team members, men- tors and mentees who have sup- ported me throughout the years,” said Capt. Judge. “I am truly blessed.”
The Stars and Stripes award is one of the most prestigious and competitive honors in science, engineering, and technology management. Less than 15 indi- viduals have been honored as Stars and Stripes award winners, according to the Coast Guard’s Command, Control, Communi- cations, Computers, Cyber and Intelligence Service Center com- manding officer, Capt. Rusty Dash.
“Capt. Judge is an out- standing officer and engineer, and the perfect recipient of this award,” Said Capt. Dash. “His technical expertise is helping to guide our implementation of the Commandant’s Tech Revolution where we’re empowering the Coast Guard with reliable, mo- bile, and integrated technology.” Capt. Judge leads 200 people in the Engineering Services Di- vision, “with overwhelming pos- itivity and infectious enthusiasm,” said Capt. Dash.
“His commitment to growing
earned his master’s degree in computer science from Howard University. He would go onto serve in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, which led to a stint building the command and control infrastructure to manage rescue missions. Capt. Judge would go on to work in the nation’s capital as the com- mander for career management for all Coast Guard officers.
But like many officers in the Coast Guard, his duty assign- ments can be varied. Capt. Judge would be chosen from 75 officers to join the White House communications team. His job was to do advance work for then President Barack Obama, building communications infra- structures prior to the president visiting locations across the country.
That job led to a tour as the White House communications officer, in charge of the entire operation at the nation’s first house.
For Capt. Judge, the White House didn’t seem to be enough, however. He would have to reach for higher goals, so he moved on to become the presi- dent’s Air Force One communi- cations officer. Flying with the president in what he describes as a flying White House, the ECSU graduate handled all communi- cations on the famed jetliner.
In 2016, he would return to Elizabeth City and serve as Coast Guard Base Elizabeth City’s ex- ecutive officer. Capt. Judge currently lives in Elizabeth City and is stationed in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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Nyeisha Nelson Identified
CAPT. WARREN JUDGE
and empowering the next gener- ation of engineers and leaders sets the example for all of us,” he said.
A native of Tampa, Florida, Capt. Judge joined the Coast Guard after a short stint as a stu- dent at the University of Florida. His brother had joined the serv- ice and Capt. Judge, who says he was spending more time at- tending to his social life rather than his studies, figured signing up was a good idea.
It turns out he was right on the money.
As an enlisted member of the Coast Guard, Capt. Judge was based in Elizabeth City. That’s when he enrolled at ECSU. With a degree in computer science and a minor in aeronautics, he would next attend Officers Can- didate School.
“ECSU gave me a lot of good opportunity for leadership,” said Capt. Judge.
When Capt. Judge became an officer in the Coast Guard he
A missing 20-year-old mom has been found dead in a shal- low grave in Florida, authorities said.
Nyeisha Nelson has been identified from remains found Saturday near train tracks in a wooded area near Crescent City, news station WJXT reported.
She was last seen dropping off her 5-year-old daughter at Mid- dleton-Burney Elementary School on Feb. 11.
But when her family didn’t hear from her, they reported her missing to authorities.
Investigators found Nelson’s 2008 Honda Accord in the woods Thursday less than five miles from where authorities uncovered her remains.
Putnam County Sheriff’s Of- fice Col. Joseph Wells said they believe that Nelson was the victim of a homicide, though they haven’t identified any sus- pects in the slaying.
“The investigation does sug- gest the likelihood that she knew the offender. This was not a ran- dom act of stranger on stranger
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violence,” he said.
He said her abandoned car
may provide some clues as to who was responsible.
“Her car is going to be a key part of this,” he said. “Not so muchthecar—wehaveit—but who was driving that car around or after Feb. 11.”
No further details have been released about the cause of man- ner of her death, but an autopsy was ordered.
Police Say This Man Cut Out
A Woman's Heart, Cooked It,
And Fed It To His Family
Walt Harris, Wife Launch Aniah’s Heart Foundation To Help Families Search For Missing Loved Ones
In a particularly disturbing homicide case, an Oklahoma man may face the death penalty after allegedly cutting his neigh- bor’s heart out, cooking it with some potatoes for his family, and then killing them as well.
According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Lawrence Paul Anderson confessed to slaughtering two family members — his uncle Leon Pye, 67, and his four- year-old niece Kaeos Yates — after breaking into one of his rel- ative’s neighbor’s houses and murdering the woman who lived there, too.
On February 9, Chickasha po- lice responded to a 911 call from a local home in which a woman pleaded for help. At the scene, they heard a woman yelling, and forced their way in — only to find Leon already dead, and his granddaughter Kaeos critically injured. Delsie Pye, Lawrence’s aunt, was still alive but had stab wounds in both eyes. OSBI said: “Chickasha Po- lice Officers observed Ander- son throwing up in the living room into some pillows.”
The young girl died in the back of the ambulance on the scene, and Anderson was
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taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries. There, he re- vealed the full extent of the crime. An agent wrote in a re- quest for a search warrant of the Pye house:
“He confessed to going to 227 West Minnesota Avenue, Chick- asha. He used his shoulder to knock in the back door. There were two German Shepherd dogs in the house. Anderson advised he killed the female res- ident and cut her heart out.”
The agent told the judge that Anderson then “took the heart back to 214 West Minnesota, Chickasha” and “cooked the heart with potatoes to feed to his family to release the demons.”
UFC fighter Walt Harris and his wife, Angela, have launched a program in memory of their daughter, Aniah Blanchard.
The couple, who’s daughter was kidnapped and murdered in late 2019, have launched Aniah’s Heart, a non-profit that aims to raise awareness and help fami- lies search for missing loved ones. The program also teaches families self-defense and pro- vides awareness training.
The foundation is centered around “four key safety areas of service”: safety and awareness education, self-defense training, search and rescue, and support- ing families of missing victims, which includes funding for
WALT HARRIS AND ANIAH BLANCHARD
searches that can be costly for families.
Harris tells UFC.com that the donations received by the foun- dation will help families cope with expenses through these try- ing times.
“When a family member has a missing loved one, you really don’t know what you need to do,” Harris said. “The contri- butions we receive for Aniah’s Heart will go towards lodging, food, travel, and other costs you just wouldn’t think about. We needed clothes on the fly, food and a place to stay when every- thing first happened. It becomes very, very expensive very quickly, and we realized how much goes into everything in real time.
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