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Courts

  • Ponce to serve 108 months for drugs

     

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  • Public record for 8/22/12 edition

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    Land Transfers

    These land transfers were recorded June 25-July 16 in the office of Carolyn H. Honeycutt, clerk of the Carroll County Circuit Court, Hillsville:

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  • Public record for 8/15/12 edition

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    District Court

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

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  • Former registrar indicted for embezzlement

    INDEPENDENCE — A Grayson County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a former Grayson voter registrar on July 27 on one count of felony embezzlement.
    Debra Parks Phipps, 46, of Independence, was arrested on May 7. She also is charged with making a false statement to a criminal investigator, a misdemeanor.

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  • Public record for 8/8/12 edition

    Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.  
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    District Court

    These sentences were recorded in April at the Galax General District Court Office, Galax. Sentences may be appealed:

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  • Prisoner's release request denied

    INDEPENDENCE — A request to release a Galax man from jail and confine him to his home on electronic monitoring was denied following a hearing last Wednesday in Grayson County Circuit Court.
    Judge David Milesco listened to testimony for about half an hour before making his ruling.
    Fred Lee Sweet, 69, was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual battery during his trial on June 17, 2010. The alleged offenses occurred in April 2007 and involved a girl who was five years old at the time.

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  • Richardson to serve 9 years for murder

    HILLSVILLE — David Richardson will serve 13 years, with four suspended, for the shooting death of a Carroll County man, Judge Brett Geisler ruled during a sentencing hearing in Carroll County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
    The jury had recommended nine years for the defendant, who was convicted of first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and discharging a firearm in an occupied dwelling.
    Richardson fired three shots in a May 18, 2010 incident that resulted in the death of Bryon Jordan Wilson.  

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  • Grimes charged in man's death

     

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  • Public record for 8/1/12 edition

    Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.  
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    District Court

    These sentences were recorded in April in the Grayson County General District Court Office, Independence. Sentences may be appealed:
    Billy R. Whitaker of Galax, guilty of littering; pay $300 fine and $81 costs.

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  • Court releases sealed charges

    HILLSVILLE — Carroll County Circuit Court officials recently released these unsealed indictments.
    Courts often seal charges by direct indictment until the person named can be served with warrants. An indictment is a formal charge, not a finding of guilt.
    Those named in the unsealed indictments include:
    • Joseph Linwood Burton, possession of methamphetamine, a schedule II drug.
    • Stanley Davis Brewer, 12 counts of obtaining drugs by false pretenses
    • Desiree Jordan Oakley, distribution of hydrocodone, a schedule III drug

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