Medicine Bow
Town in Carbon County, 442 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Carbon 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
- County
- Carbon County
- People
- 442
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Medicine Bow follows Wyoming law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- Who decides release first
A judicial officer, most often a circuit judge or circuit court magistrate, sets release at the initial appearance. For misdemeanors listed on the Supreme Court's bond schedule, a person may pay the scheduled amount without seeing a judge, and a person arrested for one must see a judicial officer within 12 hours or be cited and released.
W.R.Cr.P. 1, 3.1, 5, 46.1 and Uniform Bail and Forfeiture Schedule (2026 compilation)- Time to see a judge
An arrested person must be taken before a judicial officer without unnecessary delay, and a person arrested without a warrant must be released unless a judicial officer finds probable cause within 72 hours. A jailed person who asks in writing for release must get a decision within 72 hours.
W.R.Cr.P. 5(a), 46.1(a)(1)- Money bail
Money bail is allowed. Everyone is bailable by sufficient sureties except in capital cases where the proof is evident or the presumption great.
W.R.Cr.P. 46.1(a)
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. The pretrial section rests on a secondary summary. Which counties currently have a district attorney was not checked.
Crime
Offenses reported by WY0040300, Medicine Bow'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 | 2023* | Per 100k | Wyoming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 223 | ||
| Murder | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | ||
| Rape | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 72 | ||
| Robbery | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 11 | ||
| Aggravated assault | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 137 | ||
| Property crime | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1,566 | |
| Burglary | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 258 | ||
| Larceny | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1,115 | |
| Motor vehicle theft | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 193 | ||
| Arson | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2023* | Per 100k | Wyoming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 4 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 2,922 |
| Drug abuse violations | 4 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 848 |
Offenses WY0040300 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 added together, full years only, beside Wyoming's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
* 2023: 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. Wyoming: 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.