Police reports

• A Pilot Mountain funeral home operation has been victimized in an embezzlement scheme, according to Mount Airy Police Department reports.

Police were told on Monday of last week that this involved a suspect misusing a business credit card of American Funeral Partners, which is based on Butler Street in Pilot and includes Cox-Needham Funeral Home. The card was used to buy items at multiple businesses including Walmart.

No monetary loss figure was listed for the wrongdoing that police records indicate possibly spanned a period from last November to June.

• Benjamin Shannon Hall, 42, of 108 Pebble Trail, was jailed without privilege of bond last Wednesday after being encountered by officers during a suspicious-person investigation at a Grove Lane location near Northridge Street.

Hall allegedly refused to provide his name and was taken into custody for resisting, delaying or obstructing a public officer. A search of his person as part of the arrest procedure turned an unspecified Schedule III controlled substance, leading to a simple possession charge.

The Pebble Trail resident was confined in the Surry County Jail without bond due to having pending charges against him. Hall is facing a July 15 appearance in District Court.

• Brandee Rachelle Bledsoe, 41, listed as homeless, was incarcerated under a $15,000 secured bond last Tuesday night after a traffic stop in the 1900 block of West Pine Street revealed her to be driving a stolen car.

The rightful owner of the 2000 Lexus ES300 is listed as Rebekah Morrison Floeter of Winston-Salem.

Bledsoe was charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, driving after revocation of license, displaying an expired registration plate and expired inspection.

She is facing a July 15 appearance in Surry District Court.

• The entry of an unsecured motor vehicle occurred on June 20 at Ayers Trading Post on East Pine Street.

An undisclosed sum of money and credit cards were taken from the 2018 Ford Flex along with property valued at $330, including two Ford keys and a house key, a navy blue bag, a brown bag with straw handles and a yellow Nine West wallet.

Two Shelby residents, Missy Hickman Lail and Lora Gregory Hickman, are listed as the victims of the crime.