• A riding mower valued at $2,700 was reported stolen from a Mount Airy residence this week, according to city police department reports. The yellow and white Cub Cadet model was discovered missing Monday from the home of Delbert Wayne McHone on Springs Road.

• Offenses including injury to real property and first-degree trespassing were issued Tuesday against Alton Junior Speas, 48, of Laurel Fork, Va., after an incident at Mayberry Flea Market on North Andy Griffith Parkway. Speas is accused of using a rock and his hands to break a window of a 1991 Dodge van owned by Shirley Holyfield Haynes of Boaz Lane in order to gain entry to the vehicle. Speas also was found to have an outstanding warrant against him for failing to appear in court which was filed on Oct. 2. He was confined in the Surry County Jail under a $4,000 secured bond and is facing a Dec. 19 appearance in District Court.

• A larceny was reported Tuesday at The Shoe Department in Mayberry Mall, where a male suspect stole a pair of Itasca men’s camouflage boots by switching them with his boots and leaving the store without paying. The loss was put at $70.

• A motor vehicle break-in occurred Tuesday at Chick-fil-A, involving a 1998 Dodge Durango owned by restaurant employee Erika Lenea Rumsey of Thomas Lane. The incident netted the theft of $40 in cash from the unsecured pickup.

• The Super C convenience store on East Pine Street was the scene of a theft Tuesday which involved a malt beverage product being taken.

• Remberto Narvaez Tobias, 37, of 147 Cone Lane, is facing violations of hit and run and driving while license revoked which were filed Monday. Tobias was found to have fled the scene of an accident after being stopped by Trooper Terry Bullington of the N.C. Highway Patrol on Worth Street near South Street. Details of the incident involving a 2001 Ford Explorer driven by the accused were not given. Tobias was jailed under a $1,000 secured bond and is to be in court on Dec. 18.