Public Safety

 HILLSVILLE — Two drivers received serious injuries in a Thursday morning head on collision on U.S. 58 on the Snake Creek Bridge.

Preliminary information from the Virginia State Police report by Trooper K.D. Blackburn said the accident happened when a George W. Cox, 85, of Laurel Fork, crossed the center line at the bridge.

ROANOKE — Two Twin County men face federal charges of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, a schedule II drug.
In separate grand jury indictments, Elijah Lee Bond, 24, and Thomas Glen Harmon, 44, were charged in February in federal court in Roanoke, according to records the U.S District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
Bond was named in a five-count indictment on Feb. 17 that included conspiracy to distribute 50 grams of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine and four counts of distribution of meth.

HILLSVILLE — U.S. Marshals issued warrants against a Hillsville man Feb. 24 for violation of a federal conviction of possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, according to federal court records.
Cooperating with local officers, the federal marshals picked up Jason Deboard Stone, 30, at a convenience store in Hillsville. No address was listed for Stone.