• A Lowgap man has been charged with a felony involving a gift card received at Walmart illegally, according to Mount Airy Police Department reports. Christopher Leon Stevens, 35, of 133 Hemlock St., is accused of obtaining property by false pretenses in the Sunday incident as well as a misdemeanor larceny violation. Stevens was found to have received a gift card in the amount of $19.92 for property belonging to Walmart, police records state. He also allegedly took a 12-pack of Bud Light beer and left the store without paying. Both the beer and gift card were recovered, with Stevens confined in the Surry County Jail under a $1,000 secured bond and scheduled for a Sept. 25 appearance in District Court.

• Police were told Monday night that a motor vehicle break-in had occurred at Creekside Cinemas on East Bluemont Road, involving a 2011 Honda Pilot owned by Tammy Lynn Evans of Glade Valley in Alleghany County. A window was broken to gain entry, leading to the theft of two gold bands valued at $2,000, a purse, a debit card and a BB&T checkbook from Evans’ account.

• A break-in occurred Sunday at Moseley and Reece, a business on Reeves Drive. It involved a known suspect using a blunt object to break door glass in order to gain entry. Nothing was listed as missing, but damage to the two glass panels was estimated at $500.

• An unlawful burning was reported Saturday on Knollwood Drive at Fairway Lane. A known individual is said to have set fire to a brush bank owned by Mount Airy Country Club near a residence. No violations had been issued at last report.

• Jared Gray Brubaker, 23, of 162 Oak Ridge Place, is facing offenses of resisting, obstructing or delaying a public officer; being intoxicated and disruptive; and communicating threats, which were filed Saturday after a disturbance at the Sagebrush restaurant on Woodland Drive. Brubaker allegedly resisted being taken into custody by pulling away and communicated threats to restaurant management when told that he was banned from the establishment. He was jailed under a $2,500 secured bond and is to be in District Court on Oct. 29.

• Second-degree trespassing violations were issued against two people as a result of a Friday incident at an apartment in the 500-block of Worth Street. Catherine Tiffin Spainhour, 22, and Anthony Seaton Meeks, 35, both of Quaker Road, had been banned from the Worth Street apartment by Neil Young, property manager for that location. Spainhour and Meeks were released under a $1,000 secured bond each and are scheduled to appear in Surry District Court Tuesday.

• A breaking and entering and larceny was discovered on Aug. 28 at a vacant commercial building on West Independence Boulevard owned by Emory Dean Bray III. Someone cut a door lock to gain entry, then stole a Trane air-conditioning unit and various copper tubing, valued altogether at $1,540. The tubing was recovered, with no explanation listed.

• Police were told on Aug. 28 that a purse owned by Elizabeth G. Withers of Jonesville had been stolen from WilcoHess on Rockford Street. Withers said she left the purse on a counter and returned to find it missing. The cloth Duke Blue Devils pocketbook contained a cell phone charger, a $200 gift card from Walmart, a wallet, a Wachovia debit card, a driver’s license, a makeup bag with assorted cosmetics, medication and an insurance card, among other items.