Two Reidsville City Employees Indicted on Forgery Charges
A Rockingham County grand jury has charged two City of Reidsville employees with common law forgery and common law uttering of forged paper. The case has not been decided.
3 reports on this incident · first at Aug 15, 2026, 4:49 p.m. ET
A Rockingham County grand jury has returned a true bill of indictment charging City of Reidsville employees Haywood Nebraska Cloud Jr., 54, and Drew G. Bigelow, 29, with common law forgery and common law uttering of forged paper, wxii12.com reported.
The case is at the charging stage only. No court has decided it, neither man has been convicted of anything, and an indictment is an allegation. Both men are presumed innocent.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the state agency that assists local police departments with criminal investigations, took part in the case at Reidsville's request. According to the bureau's account, as reported by wxii12.com, the Reidsville Police Department asked for its assistance in March to investigate allegations involving two City of Reidsville employees.
No additional details about the allegations were released.
As of the reporting on which this account is based, the matter remains unresolved: the charges are pending and no outcome has been reached.
Earlier reports
Aug 15, 2026, 4:56 p.m. ET
Two Reidsville City Employees Indicted on Forgery Charges
A Rockingham County grand jury has returned a true bill of indictment charging two City of Reidsville employees, Haywood Nebraska Cloud Jr., 54, and Drew G. Bigelow, 29, with common law forgery and common law uttering of forged paper, wxii12.com reported.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation — the state agency brought in to work the case — said the Reidsville Police Department requested its assistance in March to investigate allegations involving the two employees, according to wxii12.com. The bureau is the only investigating agency identified in the report.
No additional details concerning the allegations were released, wxii12.com reported.
The case is at the charging stage and nothing more. An indictment is a formal accusation, not a finding of guilt; the wxii12.com report records no plea, no trial and no outcome of any kind. The matter is therefore unresolved, and a reader coming to this account later should not read it as an account of how the case ended. Charges are allegations, the defendants are untried, and both Cloud and Bigelow are presumed innocent.
Aug 15, 2026, 4:49 p.m. ETFirst report
Two Reidsville city employees indicted on forgery charges, SBI says
Two City of Reidsville, North Carolina, employees have been indicted on forgery charges following an investigation by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, WXII reported.
The SBI said the Reidsville Police Department requested assistance in March to investigate allegations involving two city employees, according to WXII. A Rockingham County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment charging Haywood Nebraska Cloud Jr., 54, and Drew G. Bigelow, 29, with common law forgery and common law uttering of forged paper, the outlet reported.
No additional details about the allegations were released, according to WXII.
The case is at the charging stage and remains unresolved. An indictment is an accusation, not a finding of guilt. Neither Cloud nor Bigelow has been tried, no court has ruled on the allegations, and both men are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. No plea, verdict, trial date or other disposition appears in the available information.
This is a developing matter, and the account above reflects only what has been reported so far. Readers encountering this story later should not assume the charges have been resolved in either direction.
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