How Reedsville Arrests Work
The 2020 Census put Reedsville at 530 residents. That figure describes the town's size, not its bookings. An arrest tied to Reedsville might come from town police, the Preston County Sheriff, or another agency entirely. Pin down the arresting agency first. A facility listing alone won't tell you where or by whom someone was busted.
After a Reedsville arrest, a person committed to custody generally shows up in the WVDCR regional-jail tools tied to Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility. TVRJ holds inmates from seven counties: Barbour, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, and Upshur. It is a regional custody hub, not a Reedsville jail. So read the facility and committing-agency fields in each result rather than hunting for a city-only listing.
Not every arrest ends in a regional custody record. A person might be cited and released, bonded out, transferred, held elsewhere, or processed with no TVRJ commitment at all. Those gaps matter. The arresting agency's report and a targeted records request beat a single online search.
Where Reedsville Busted Mugshots Appear
The town runs no separate police records line. There is no online arrest log, daily bulletin, or booking-photo page either. For current regional custody, start with the official state tools. A photo appears in an official WVDCR result only when one is available, and booking images are not reproduced there. Reedsville does have a practical records contact, though it keeps no public photo archive.
| Channel | Photo | Status | Best use |
|---|---|---|---|
| WVDCR regional-jail search | Only if available | Official | Current or recent regional-custody search, checked against facility and agency fields. |
| WVDCR Daily Incarcerations | Possible through the official detail record | Official | Latest processed admission information, not a fixed same-day record set. |
| Reedsville Police through Town Hall | If publicly releasable | Official request path | Local report request or identification of the police records custodian. |
| West Virginia Magistrate Case Search | Not a photo channel | Official court path | Disposition research after a booking or custody entry changes. |
| Local reporting and county aggregators | Variable | Secondary | Context or discovery only, never a custody determination. |
The WVDCR portal wants at least the first three letters of a last name. Add a first name to separate similar results. Expect a verification prompt before results load. One public detail page can show different fields than the next. No entry is guaranteed to include an image. WVDCR intake photography captures several identification views, but that internal practice does not promise a public photo for every result.
Busted in Reedsville: Lookup Steps
Work through the official sequence before trusting any unofficial county page. The Preston County guide walks through the custody systems in more depth.
- Record the full name, a possible date, and the arresting agency if it is known. Do not infer the agency solely from a Reedsville reference in a story or listing.
- Search the WVDCR regional-jail portal with a last-name prefix of three or more letters. Use the first name to narrow a broad result.
- Review the returned facility, agency, and dates. TVRJ serves seven counties, so a regional result is not a reliable town filter.
- For a recent intake question, also check Daily Incarcerations. It may be incomplete or stale and has no published fixed update or retention interval.
- If neither official view shows a result, contact Reedsville through the town phone or email and ask who holds the police record. A Sheriff or another agency may instead be the custodian.
- Check the Magistrate Case Search for the later court record. Custody status does not decide the case.
Reedsville Police Records
The official Reedsville contact page places Town Hall at 207 S Robert Stone Way, Reedsville, WV 26547. Weekday hours run Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The phone number is 304-864-3437. Email reaches the office at townofreedsville@frontiernet.net. The West Virginia Criminal Justice Directory lists Reedsville Police at that same address and number, which backs up the location.
Call or email the town and ask who currently serves as the police records custodian. There is no separate records line, no online request form, no posted fee schedule, and no stated turnaround time. Keep your request narrow: the person's name, the approximate date, the agency involved, and the exact report or photo you want. Ask up front whether the record is publicly releasable and what copy cost, if any, applies.
Start from W. Va. Code ยง29B-1-3, the state FOIA provision covering public-record requests. If the Sheriff made the bust, send the request to the Preston County Sheriff's Office, 103 W Main St, Kingwood, WV 26537, 304-329-1611. Different records land in different hands: the town clerk, the police custodian, the Sheriff, TVRJ, or the courts. Identify the right office before you send anything.
Reedsville Busted Results Need Context
Timing explains most confusion. Someone gets photographed at booking, yet the OIS entry may lag behind or vanish after a release or transfer. The Daily Incarcerations system publishes the latest admission numbers it has, but its own documentation promises no exact refresh schedule, no perfect location detail, and no permanent archive.
One facility holds people from seven counties, so read every TVRJ result with care. Look at the committing agency and county instead of assuming a Reedsville connection. No verified booking feed from the Preston sheriff or any town government fills that hole. For any Preston municipality, the arresting agency's record tells you the locality, and the WVDCR result tells you who is in custody.
Common names call for a bit more work. Add the optional first name in the official search, then compare the listed details line by line. Bookmark the official URL and note the date you checked it for later follow-up. Results shift as custody shifts, so give records staff the event date and the agency name, not just a copied name.
Reedsville Busted News Leads
Newspapers round out the picture once official channels come up empty. WV News / Preston County News covers the county, and its Preston County Journal section digs into local stories. The Dominion Post Police Beat works at the regional level. WDTV sometimes picks up Preston County items too. None of these outlets runs a Reedsville mugshot section, though. Coverage depends on what happened, so a story may mention a complaint or a court filing without telling you who is actually in custody now. For a wider view of how county media handle arrest reporting, see Arrest News.
Then there are the aggregator sites. Busted Newspaper, RecentlyBooked, Arrests.org, and Arre.st group booking material by county or by regional jail, not by town. That makes them shaky tools for anything Reedsville-specific. Entries can sit untouched for a long time. Some are thin or simply wrong. Treat them as starting points, and confirm any name, date, facility, or charge against the official source and the court record before you rely on it. One more caution: do not repost their photos. Neither Mugshots.com nor Mugshots.zone turned up a verified Preston County section, so neither earns a spot on this list.
Official Reedsville Contact Source
The image below is a contact reference pulled from the official Reedsville contact page. It is not a booking photo or a mugshot listing of any kind.
The town's listed contact details give you a way to launch a local records request during business hours. Reedsville posts no city booking log on its official page. For custody questions, start with the regional WVDCR search instead. For a specific local police report, ask the town office to point you to the records custodian who handles it.
Court Status After a Reedsville Booking
A booking is only the start of a case, and its status changes as things move through the courts. To see where a case stands now, use the West Virginia Magistrate Case Search or contact the court handling the matter directly.
No single Reedsville page answers every records question. The WVDCR system shows regional custody. The arresting office can identify its own report. The court system tracks the legal case itself. Keeping those three paths straight keeps you from reading a stale or partial result as the final word.