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Richwood Busted Mugshots: Who Holds What

Richwood ranks as the second incorporated city in Nicholas County. When Richwood Police make an arrest, a city incident or arrest report usually follows. The department does not hold every piece of the booking process, though. Most county arrests are processed at Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility over in Sutton. That facility serves Nicholas County plus several neighbors. So the regional jail, not a city lockup, is where a Richwood arrest typically lands.

That split creates two separate records paths. Ask the city custodian whether they hold an incident report, citation, arrest report, or booking referral. The Division of Corrections, or the regional jail itself, keeps the admission record and intake photograph. A current DCR result points to regional custody. It says nothing about which agency made the arrest. A city report, in turn, does not mean the person is still locked up.

Richwood has no verified public booking roster. There is no dated arrest blotter, no recent-booking window, and no photo archive. Treat that gap as a routing instruction rather than proof that nothing happened. Someone may have been released, transferred, or held under a different facility status.

Where Richwood Busted Mugshots Appear

Go to official sources first for any Richwood lookup. West Virginia DCR runs both the regional-jail person search and the daily-incarcerations tool, and Richwood's official city contact page gives the phone routes for police and city hall. Neither publishes a booking feed. DCR does say intake photographs are created, yet a public search only shows a photo when one is available. Don't count on seeing an image, and don't treat a displayed photo as a permanent public record.

Secondary sites worth checking include Busted Newspaper, RecentlyBooked, Arrests.org, the Clay County Free Press, the Nicholas Chronicle, and Nicholas County Wire, along with other regional news outlets. A few may tag an entry with a Richwood place or agency label. Keep in mind that none of these is a verified Richwood Police roster. None counts as a complete or current custody record either. Confirm the agency, booking date, and court details through the official sources.

Note: DCR states that public information can change and may not be complete as to location, release, or status.

Busted in Richwood: Call Before Mailing

Richwood's official contact page lists separate numbers for the police chief and for city hall or the clerk. Older directory material overlaps the city number. That makes a quick phone call worth your time before anything goes in the mail. Confirm that the city actually has the police report. Find out who takes records requests now. Say whether you want an arrest report or a CRJ booking photograph. Request the city record and the DCR record separately when you need both.

1. Call the listed police-chief or city-hall line and state the person's name, approximate incident date, and the city location if known.
2. Ask which office is the present custodian of a police incident, arrest, or citation record, and confirm its mailing or electronic-delivery route.
3. For current detention, search the DCR regional-jail tool by name and verify the facility rather than relying on a Richwood label alone.
4. For an intake file or photograph, ask DCR or CRJ whether it is the custodian and provide Central Regional Jail, the person, and the approximate booking date.

The fuller county breakdown sits at Nicholas County Busted Mugshots. It covers the official roster substitute, record request steps, and the daily channel. No official county feed promises publication within 24, 48, or 72 hours. DCR Daily is a live institutional source, not a municipal archive. A negative result deserves a follow-up with the responsible agency and the court.

Richwood Police Record Request

The city contact page lists Chief Dan Pitts at (304) 846-2571. City Hall and the clerk sit at 6 White Avenue, Richwood, WV 26261. They are reachable at (304) 846-2596, with fax at (304) 846-2580. Normal office hours run Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Neither source sets out an arrest-record fee schedule, a booking-photo form, or a city response timeline. For routing questions, Richwood's official contact page is the place to start.

The city contact setup backs a call-before-mail approach. It offers no public Richwood booking list, and there is no sign the city controls any regional DCR photograph.

West Virginia gives the public a records tool in West Virginia Code Chapter 29B. A strong written request covers the basics. Name the person, the date span, and the location of the incident. Add a report number if you have one, plus the specific record you want. Ask for electronic delivery. Ask for a cost estimate based on actual reproduction charges too. You may also request any part of a file that is not exempt and can be separated out. The agency then has five business days to respond, not counting weekends and legal holidays. That clock starts the process. It does not force every document out the door that fast, since redaction, custody questions, or another agency's files can slow things down.

One wording caution applies. Do not call an intake photo a Richwood Police photo unless the city confirms it holds the record. Booking photographs from the regional system sit with the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation instead. Follow DCR's FOIA request policy for those. Name Central Regional Jail, the person, and the approximate booking date. Say exactly what you want: the admission record, the intake photograph, release or transfer details, or another defined item.

Richwood Arrests at Central Regional Jail

Central Regional Jail sits at 1255 Dyer Hill Road, Sutton, WV 26601. The facility's official number is (304) 765-7904. Nicholas County sends its arrestees there under the regional system. A record stamped CRJ, or one pointing to another DCR facility, only tells you where the person was held. Read it next to the separate arresting-agency field. The two answer different questions.

For a live custody check, use the state's regional-jail offender search. That is the official lookup. State material describes a name search that returns the facility, a photo when one exists, and a More Info view with admission or booking data plus court-order details. The public screen may show less than the internal record, so trust the labels on the result itself. DCR also warns that custody status shifts fast. It may not capture the full current picture.

Current custody

An active regional-jail result can show a person held at a facility at the time the system was updated.

Daily information

DCR Daily provides an institutional snapshot, not a guaranteed Richwood arrest log or historical archive.

Released or transferred person

The person may no longer appear in an active result, even though another public record may still exist.

Prison search

The DCR prison search is relevant to a later sentence or transfer, not the first city-booking check.

Intake photos exist because DCR policy requires them. That policy, however, promises neither a public online gallery nor permanent retention. Older photos live with whichever agency holds the file. Ask DCR directly whether the photo exists, whether it can be released, and whether a transfer, retention schedule, or exemption blocks it.

Richwood Busted Cases: Court Check

A booking is only the start of a case. To see what happened next, go to the courts. The West Virginia Judiciary's Magistrate Court search covers public criminal complaints and Magistrate matters, while the Circuit Court search handles circuit cases. Search by first and last name or case number. Then match the complaint date and charge wording against the booking details. Public results have limits, so if a record is missing online, call the clerk.

Both clerk offices sit in Summersville. The Nicholas Magistrate Clerk is at 511 Church Street, (304) 872-7829. The Circuit Clerk works from 700 Main Street, Suite 5, and can be reached at (304) 872-7810. Cases shift over time. A charge can be amended, dismissed, reduced, transferred, resolved through diversion, or closed some other way. A sealed or restricted docket may never fully surface in a public search.

Custody and case outcome are separate tracks. An active DCR entry can vanish after a release or transfer. A court docket, on the other hand, can stay up long after someone walks free, and docket indexing can lag a fresh arrest. Checking the right court record keeps those tracks straight. It also stops a secondary report from standing in as the final word.

Richwood News and Custody Leads

Richwood has no verified city booking source. Local coverage runs at the county and regional level instead. Nicholas County Wire posts law-enforcement updates. The Nicholas Chronicle reports arrests, arraignments, courts, and regional-jail matters in its weekly archive. WV News, WVVA, and MetroNews sometimes pick up individual Nicholas County stories. The reporting comes in bursts, not on a schedule. A picture in a news story need not be a booking photo. And an article proves nothing about current custody.

Two more sources deserve caution. Clay County Free Press runs a regional "Booked" feature that can sweep in Nicholas County names, since CRJ serves several counties. Private county pages may also attach a Richwood label to an entry. Treat all of it as unofficial leads. None of it is a police blotter or a stand-in for the DCR system. The countywide media-source breakdown lives in Crime News & Mugshots.

When a lead names someone from Richwood, write down the publisher's date and the agency cited. Then compare that against the DCR facility result and the court case. The cross-check matters here. In a small city, the police record, the city clerk's routing, the county court, and the regional jail each play a distinct part. Mixing them up can pin an arrest on Richwood Police when another agency made it.

Note: A Richwood place label in private coverage never replaces agency attribution, custody confirmation, or the court record.