Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 24, 2026.
Mineral County, West Virginia, has about 27,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In West Virginia the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the West Virginia State Police is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Mineral County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Mineral County public records, Mineral County arrest records, Mineral County warrants, Mineral County inmate search, Mineral County court records, West Virginia arrest records and West Virginia inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Mineral County Circuit Court
In West Virginia the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Mineral County are heard by the Mineral County Circuit Court, which hears felonies, the larger civil cases and juvenile matters; the Magistrate Court takes misdemeanors, traffic cases and civil cases up to $10,000, and the file of each case is kept by the Circuit Clerk.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at mineralwv.gov/circuit (page title: Circuit Clerk -), phone 304-788-1562, 4109 Address 150 Armstrong Street Second Floor Keyser WV 26726, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
West Virginia has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The West Virginia Criminal History and Your Own Copy
The statewide criminal history kept by the West Virginia State Police is closed to the public in West Virginia: it is released to its subject and to authorized employers and licensing agencies, and a member of the public uses the court's own case index instead.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the State Police Criminal Identification Bureau.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Mineral County
The Mineral County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Keyser and Ridgeley keep the arrest records in Mineral County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one campus police department, two state agencies and one state police unit in Mineral County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the two agencies in Mineral County with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 187 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Mineral County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Mineral County in 2024
The two agencies in Mineral County with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 31 violent and 124 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 155 crimes in 2024 against 188 in 2023. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Mineral County public records guide.
The Prosecuting Attorney for Mineral County
The Prosecuting Attorney decides which arrests in Mineral County become charges and files them in the Mineral County Circuit Court or the Magistrate Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at mineralwv.gov/contact-us-prosecuting-attorney (page title: Prosecuting Attorney | Contact Us -), phone 304-788-0300, 150 Armstrong St Third Floor Keyser, WV 26726, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Mineral County
Registered sex offenders living in Mineral County are listed on the West Virginia Sex Offender Registry, run by the West Virginia State Police at apps.wv.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Mineral County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Mineral County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Mineral County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the West Virginia State Police is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
Can I search Mineral County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at mineralwv.gov/circuit (page title: Circuit Clerk -).
How do I get my own West Virginia criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the State Police Criminal Identification Bureau.
Who prosecutes crimes in Mineral County?
The Prosecuting Attorney, reached at 304-788-0300, which files its cases in the Mineral County Circuit Court or the Magistrate Court.
Is this the official Mineral County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.