WV0390600
City agency in Preston County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 292 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Preston County
- Incident reporting
- No NIBRS start date in the FBI's list.
- Months sent in 2025
- 0 of 12
- Reported by
- Preston County Sheriff's Office sends this agency's reports.
- FBI agency code
- WV0390600
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
A county magistrate sets bail first, with an on-call magistrate for arrests after hours. Magistrates need not be lawyers. Only the circuit court can release a person charged with an offense punishable by life in prison.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1W. Va. Code 62-1-5- Time to see a judge
An officer must take an arrested person "without unnecessary delay" before a magistrate of the county where the arrest happened. The law sets no number of hours.
W. Va. Code 62-1-5(a)(1)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.