Mercer County Busted Mugshots is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, arrange a release, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Use the responsible government office for an official answer.
Choose the Office That Holds the Record
Start with the record's custodian. The Mercer County Sheriff's Records Division is the first route for a specific sheriff arrest, incident, warrant, or releasable booking-related record. Its current sheriff-site address is 1439 E. Main Street, Princeton, WV 24740, and the listed telephone number is 304-487-8364. The county directory lists Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but the current sheriff pages do not confirm a full records-desk schedule, so call before visiting. The published prices are $20 for an incident or crash report and $10 for a VIN check. No booking-photo fee is published, so ask Records for the applicable charge and anticipated response time.
- For a Mercer booking record, a releasable photo, or the full request process, see the Mercer County records guide and begin with Sheriff Records.
- For current or later regional-jail custody, check the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation Offender Search. Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is a state-operated regional facility that serves Mercer, not a sheriff roster.
- For what happened after booking, use the West Virginia Judiciary Court Record Access or the Magistrate Record Search. For circuit-court records, the Mercer Circuit Clerk is the official local route.
- For a Bluefield, Princeton, or Athens arrest report, begin with the arresting city police department. City police records and Mercer Sheriff records may not be the same file.
- For Bluefield records, use Bluefield Police at 304-327-6101; for Princeton, use Princeton Police at 304-487-5000 or 304-425-8911; for Athens, use Athens Police at 304-384-3525. Ask each office for its current public-record request method.
- West Virginia's FOIA framework in W. Va. Code ยง29B-1-3 generally calls for a response within five days, excluding weekends and legal holidays. It is a response rule, not a promise that a requested record or photo will be released immediately.
- For federal sentenced custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator. For a qualifying immigration-custody question, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator. Neither is a Mercer booking-record source.