Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest 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 between September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Pleasants County, West Virginia, has about 7,400 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 Pleasants County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Pleasants County public records, Pleasants County arrest records, Pleasants County warrants, Pleasants County inmate search, Pleasants County court records, West Virginia arrest records and West Virginia inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Pleasants County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Pleasants County is filed in the Pleasants County Circuit Court or the Magistrate Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases and civil cases up to $10,000, and the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Pleasants County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at courtswv.gov/public-resources/court-information-county/pleasants (page title: Pleasants County | West Virginia Judiciary), phone 304-684-7118, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Pleasants County
The Pleasants County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for St. Marys keep the arrest records in Pleasants 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 these agencies in Pleasants County: the Department of Natural Resources in Pleasants County and the State Fire Marshal in Pleasants County (state agency); the St. Marys State Police (state police); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Pleasants County arrest records.
The Prosecuting Attorney for Pleasants County
The Prosecuting Attorney decides which arrests in Pleasants County become charges and files them in the Pleasants 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 pleasantscountywv.gov/prosecuting-attorney (page title: Prosecuting Attorney | Pleasants County, WV), phone (304) 684-2202, 301 Court Lane St. Marys, WV 26170, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Pleasants County
Registered sex offenders living in Pleasants 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 Pleasants 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 Pleasants County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Pleasants 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.
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 Pleasants County?
The Prosecuting Attorney, reached at (304) 684-2202, which files its cases in the Pleasants County Circuit Court or the Magistrate Court.
Is this the official Pleasants 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.