Courts

INDEPENDENCE — A man charged with assaulting police officers in Grayson County could be working out a plea deal with the court.
Randy Lee Anders, 34, was shot four times by Grayson deputies after he allegedly resisted arrest on a fugitive warrant and pulled a gun on them. Anders had previously made threats to harm law enforcement if he was arrested, police said.

INDEPENDENCE — A new trial date has been set for the man charged with first-degree murder in the 2002 shooting death of Brandon Billings.
Chad Allen Reeves, 31, agreed earlier this month to a speedy trial, meaning his case would be heard in the next five months, but he appeared in Grayson County Circuit Court last Friday to waive that right.
In court March 28, Judge Brett Geisler asked Reeves if he understood that he had the right for a speedy trial, and he said “yes.”

HILLSVILLE — Jesse John Tang of Rural Hall, N.C., pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving in Carroll County Circuit Court on March 27, in connection with a road fatality on I-77 last year that claimed the life of tow truck operator Russell Nelson.
Nelson was the former owner of Russell’s Garage in Hillsville.

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Land Transfers

These land transfers were recorded Dec. 2-16, 2013, in the office of Carolyn H. Honeycutt, clerk of the Carroll County Circuit Court, Hillsville: