Police reports

• A Virginia man was jailed last Thursday on charges of assault by pointing a gun and communicating threats, according to Mount Airy Police Department reports.

Joel Gregory Hensley, 59, of 211 Ike Slate Lane in Ararat, was served with warrants on the charges by city officers, which police records indicate had been filed earlier that day with Robert Jason Isaacs of Brim Road as the complainant.

Hensley was confined in the Surry County Jail under a $15,000 secured bond and slated for a May 30 appearance in District Court.

• William Darrell Young, 65, of 127 Bullwhip Drive, Ararat, Virginia, was charged with hit and run Thursday, resulting from an investigation of a motor vehicle crash at Lowe’s Home Improvement.

Young was found to have struck another vehicle with one he was operating and left the scene, which Young subsequently admitted to in the police station lobby, records state.

He is scheduled to be in Surry District Court on June 24.

• Ronald Shane Watson, 53, of 1316 Grove Lane, was served with a criminal summons for a second-degree trespassing charge on April 25 which had been issued on April 22 with no other details available.

A June 24 District Court date was set in the case.

• Bradley Edward Barnes, 54, of 241 Holland Drive, Cana, Virginia, was incarcerated under a $60,000 secured bond as a fugitive from justice on April 20, when he was encountered by officers at an Allred Mill Road residence.

Barnes’ name had been entered into a national crime database as being wanted in Carroll County, Virginia, on an unspecified matter.

During a routine search as part of his arrest, Barnes was found with a Schedule II controlled substance, methamphetamine, constituting a felony charge of possessing a Schedule II controlled substance, and he further is accused of possessing drug paraphernalia, arrest records state.

Barnes also was the subject of an outstanding order for arrest for failing to appear in court which had been issued in Surry County in March 2022.

He was scheduled to be in District Court in Dobson on Monday.