Courts

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District Court

These sentences were recorded in September in the Carroll County General District Court Office, Hillsville. Sentences may be appealed:

PULASKI — A Pulaski Circuit Court judge told a 25-year-old Max Meadows man that he was a “bad driver, a speeding driver,” when pronouncing his sentence Thursday.
Dustin Keith Hodge was the driver in a Sept. 15, 2012, wreck that killed a Hillsville woman. He had pleaded no contest in August to an involuntary manslaughter charge after the crash on Virginia 100 in Pulaski County that killed Misty Dawn Davis.

HILLSVILLE — Twin County Drug Task Force members searched two residences and a business in Galax on Sept. 15 after several undercover buys of illegal drugs, according to three search warrants sought in the case.
The search warrants were sealed by Carroll County Circuit Court until Dec. 18, two days after the most recent meeting of the Carroll grand jury.

A Galax woman was arrested Dec. 11 on a direct indictment alleging that she obtained money by false pretenses from a disabled person.
Tamara Parnell, 35, of Galax was arrested by Galax Detective Robbie Isom and a special agent of the U.S. Secret Service, according to Police Chief Rick Clark.
An investigation was conducted following a complaint received by the Galax Department of Social Services, alleging that Parnell had diverted funds from an account of a female she was paid to keep in her home, Clark said.