Montgomery
City in Fayette County, Kanawha County, 1,516 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, Fayette 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
- Fayette CountyKanawha County
- People
- 1,516
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Montgomery 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 Montgomery Police Department, Montgomery'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 | 2022* | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 10 | 9 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 253 | |
| Murder | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 5.2 | |||
| Rape | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 56 | ||
| Robbery | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 10 | ||
| Aggravated assault | 9 | 7 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 182 | |
| Property crime | 1 | 38 | 91 | 5,393 | 1,091 |
| Burglary | 7 | 17 | 1,003 | 168 | |
| Larceny | 1 | 25 | 72 | 4,055 | 848 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 6 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 75 | |
| Arson | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 9.6 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2022* | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 1 | 51 | 63 | 4,766 | 1,955 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 1 | 31 | 35 | 2,759 | 689 |
| Vandalism | 6 | 10 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 279 | |
| Fraud | 3 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 154 | |
| Drug abuse violations | 2 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 584 | |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 79 | ||
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 35 | ||
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 2 | 10 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 36 | |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 35 | ||
| Other Group A offenses | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 52 |
Offenses Montgomery 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, 2024 to 2025 added together, full years only, beside West Virginia's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
* 2022: reported for part of the year only, so the count is short and the year is left out of the rate.
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.