Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in Colbert County, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Muscle Shoals comes from a judge of the Colbert County Circuit Court or the District Court, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Muscle Shoals public records, Colbert County warrants, Muscle Shoals arrest records, Muscle Shoals criminal records, Muscle Shoals court records, Muscle Shoals police reports, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Muscle Shoals
In Alabama an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Muscle Shoals that means the Colbert County Circuit Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $20,000, divorces and appeals from the district court; the District Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings in felony cases, issues its own warrants on the cases before it. A city with a municipal court of its own issues warrants on the tickets and ordinance cases it tries.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the Circuit Clerk.
For Colbert County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at colbert.alacourt.gov (page title: Colbert County | Thirty-First Circuit Court of Alabama), phone 256.536.9645, 201 North Main Street, Tuscumbia, AL 35674, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.
Who Serves Warrants in Muscle Shoals
The Colbert County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Muscle Shoals (filed by the FBI as Muscle Shoals Police Department) serve warrants in and around Muscle Shoals.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Colbert County: District Attorney at 31st Circuit (other agency); it serves warrants on its own ground.
The agency that serves a warrant from Colbert County is whichever one finds the person; an Alabama warrant is valid across Alabama.
Together, the five agencies in Colbert County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,047 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Muscle Shoals arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Muscle Shoals Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Colbert County Sheriff's Office, held about 72 people on an average day in 2021 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count.
A person arrested in Muscle Shoals on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Muscle Shoals
The places to check for a warrant from Muscle Shoals:
- The court file of the case, through the Circuit Clerk at 256.536.9645, since a warrant is recorded in the case it was issued in.
- Alacourt, the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription, for a case whose register of actions shows a warrant.
The one Colbert County page SearchSystems verified, the court's, is not a list of open warrants.
The statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is not open to the public in Alabama, so it is not a route to a warrant check on someone else.
Clearing a Warrant from Muscle Shoals
A warrant is recalled by the court that issued it, so clearing one from Muscle Shoals starts with the Circuit Clerk at 256.536.9645: the case goes back on the calendar and the judge recalls the warrant when the person appears.
A missed date in a case before the District Court is handled by that court, not by the Colbert County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Muscle Shoals?
Not from the Colbert County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription, and a case whose register of actions shows a warrant is the record of it. The court file is the record of a warrant: ask the Circuit Clerk at 256.536.9645.
Who serves warrants in Muscle Shoals?
The agency that reports for Muscle Shoals inside the city and the Colbert County Sheriff's Office outside it, or whichever agency finds the person; an Alabama warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Muscle Shoals held?
At the county jail, run by the Colbert County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Muscle Shoals cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk at 256.536.9645.
Is this the official Muscle Shoals website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.