Westover
City in Monongalia County, 4,026 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Monongalia County Sheriff's Office.
A department or FBI code is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decisions city-or-town-is-its-police-department, left-out-code-is-its-place). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- County
- Monongalia County
- People
- 4,026
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Westover 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 Westover Police Department, Westover'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 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 10 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 202 | 270 |
| Murder | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 5.6 | |||
| Rape | 1 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 55 | |
| Robbery | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 11 | |||
| Aggravated assault | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 159 | 198 |
| Property crime | 91 | 91 | 106 | 114 | 2,463 | 1,178 |
| Burglary | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 153 | 185 |
| Larceny | 85 | 84 | 95 | 107 | 2,273 | 907 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 87 |
| Arson | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 11 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 127 | 122 | 129 | 97 | 2,911 | 2,036 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 26 | 24 | 28 | 24 | 625 | 694 |
| Vandalism | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 315 |
| Fraud | 8 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 135 | 160 |
| Drug abuse violations | 82 | 83 | 80 | 49 | 1,801 | 613 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 81 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 37 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 1 | 3 | 5 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 40 | |
| Embezzlement | 1 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 9.1 | |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 33 | |||
| Other Group A offenses | 2 | 2 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 52 |
Offenses Westover 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, 2022 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.