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.
Mississippi County, Arkansas, has about 38,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office, nine city agencies and two state agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Mississippi County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Mississippi County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Mississippi County
The Mississippi County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Mississippi County. It reported 600 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists nine cities in Mississippi County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Blytheville, 12,359 residents: 492 arrests reported for 2025.
- Osceola, 6,496 residents: 1,326 arrests reported for 2023.
- Manila, 3,736 residents: 158 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gosnell, 2,689 residents: 51 arrests reported for 2025.
- Leachville, 1,898 residents: 31 arrests reported for 2024.
- Luxora, 865 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wilson, 704 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2023.
- Keiser, 698 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
- Etowah, 240 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Mississippi County: the State Park at Hampson Archeological Museum State Park and the State Park at Herman Davis State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Mississippi County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Mississippi County Sheriff's Office: 600 for 2025, 723 for 2024, 651 for 2023 and 719 for 2022.
- Blytheville: 492 for 2025, 541 for 2024, 590 for 2023, 628 for 2022, 814 for 2021 and 760 for 2020.
- Manila: 158 for 2025, 235 for 2024, 179 for 2023 and 120 for 2022.
- Gosnell: 51 for 2025, 44 for 2024, 76 for 2023, 74 for 2022, 47 for 2021 and 77 for 2020.
- Keiser: 4 for 2025.
- Luxora: 2 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 3 for 2021 and 5 for 2020.
- Etowah: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 3 for 2020.
- Osceola: 1,326 for 2023, 460 for 2020 and 525 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Leachville: 31 for 2024, 24 for 2023, 26 for 2022, 27 for 2021, 8 for 2020 and 23 for 2019.
- Wilson: 1 for 2023, 17 for 2021, 19 for 2020 and 6 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,307 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,303 in 2025 against 1,545 in 2024, down 16 percent.
Leachville reported only part of 2025 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mississippi County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Mississippi County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 140 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 322 beds, and it ran at 43 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office at mississippicountysheriffar.org/roster.php (page title: Inmate Roster | Current Inmates Booking Date Descending | Mississippi County AR Sheriff), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Arkansas Division of Correction, whose inmate locator is at doc.arkansas.gov/correction/online-services.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Mississippi County
An arrest in Mississippi County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Mississippi County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at caseinfo.arcourts.gov/opad); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at arcourts.gov/circuit/?q=prosecuting-attorney, phone 870-261-1747).
Statewide, CourtConnect is the Arkansas Judiciary's free statewide case search.
Arkansas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public, through the Arkansas State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Mississippi County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Blytheville, Osceola, Manila, Gosnell, Leachville, Luxora or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Park at Hampson Archeological Museum State Park or the State Park at Herman Davis State Park: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 870-261-1747, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Mississippi County Circuit Court, through the court records page at caseinfo.arcourts.gov/opad.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
Cities in Mississippi County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the 17 cities in Mississippi County: Blytheville, Osceola, Manila, Gosnell, Leachville, Luxora, Wilson, Keiser and Etowah. Joiner, Dyess, Dell, Burdette, Bassett, Marie, Birdsong and Victoria have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Mississippi County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mississippi County each year?
The Mississippi County Sheriff's Office reported 600 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,307 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Mississippi County?
Look on the custody page of the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office at mississippicountysheriffar.org/roster.php. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Mississippi County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mississippi County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Arkansas State Police: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Mississippi County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Mississippi County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Mississippi County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.