Alderson
Town in Greenbrier County, Monroe County, 1,383 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Greenbrier County Sheriff's Office, Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- Counties
- Greenbrier CountyMonroe County
- People
- 1,383
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Alderson follows West Virginia law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- 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)- Money bail
Magistrates and judges may set money bail.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. The name of the Supreme Court-approved risk instrument was not found. Whether jailers release on a bail schedule without a magistrate was not found.
Crime
Offenses reported by Alderson Police Department, Alderson's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 277 | |
| Murder | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 5.9 | ||||
| Rape | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 56 | ||
| Robbery | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 12 | ||||
| Aggravated assault | 6 | 4 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 203 | ||
| Property crime | 32 | 23 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 1,971 | 1,213 |
| Burglary | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 193 | |
| Larceny | 22 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 1,642 | 927 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 93 | ||
| Arson | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 93 | 42 | 25 | 32 | 8 | 4,106 | 2,075 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 23 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1,088 | 680 |
| Vandalism | 12 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 801 | 327 |
| Fraud | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 162 | |
| Drug abuse violations | 55 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 1,807 | 646 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 84 | |||
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 41 | ||||
| Other Group A offenses | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 51 |
Offenses Alderson Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside West Virginia's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. West Virginia: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.