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 on September 24, 2026.
Poinsett County, Arkansas, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one state agency. 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 Poinsett 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: Poinsett County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Poinsett County
The Poinsett County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Poinsett County. It reported 115 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Trumann, 7,425 residents: 453 arrests reported for 2025.
- Harrisburg, 2,200 residents: 65 arrests reported for 2025.
- Marked Tree, 2,191 residents: 122 arrests reported for 2024.
- Lepanto, 1,638 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- Tyronza, 675 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Weiner, 614 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2023.
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 one more agency in Poinsett County: the State Park at Lake Poinsett State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Poinsett County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Trumann: 453 for 2025, 614 for 2024, 728 for 2023, 614 for 2022, 501 for 2021 and 626 for 2020.
- Poinsett County Sheriff's Office: 115 for 2025, 148 for 2024, 174 for 2023, 213 for 2022, 173 for 2021 and 104 for 2020.
- Harrisburg: 65 for 2025, 81 for 2024, 121 for 2023, 64 for 2022, 86 for 2021 and 70 for 2020.
- Lepanto: 17 for 2025, 30 for 2024 and 56 for 2023.
- Tyronza: 2 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 8 for 2023.
- Marked Tree: 122 for 2024, 181 for 2023, 255 for 2022, 234 for 2021, 166 for 2020 and 97 for 2019.
- Weiner: 4 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 10 for 2021, 10 for 2020 and 9 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 652 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 652 in 2025 against 873 in 2024, down 25 percent.
Through March 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 130 arrests, against 146 in the same months of 2025.
Marked Tree reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Poinsett County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Poinsett 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 2021 the jail held about 65 people, down from about 80 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 136 beds, and it ran at 59 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 Poinsett County Sheriff's Office at poinsettsheriffar.gov/inmate-roster/filters/current/booking_time=de... (page title: Inmate Roster | Poinsett County Sheriff AR | Sort Booking Time | Descending | Page 1), phone 870-578-2116, 1500 Justice Drive Harrisburg, AR 72432, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Poinsett County
An arrest in Poinsett County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Poinsett County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at poinsettar.gov/government/county_clerk.php, phone 870-578-4410).
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 Poinsett County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Poinsett County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 870-578-2116.
- An arrest in Trumann, Harrisburg, Marked Tree, Lepanto, Tyronza or Weiner: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Park at Lake Poinsett State Park: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Poinsett County Circuit Court, through the court records page at poinsettar.gov/government/county_clerk.php, phone 870-578-4410.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
Cities in Poinsett County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the eight cities in Poinsett County: Trumann, Harrisburg, Marked Tree, Lepanto, Tyronza and Weiner. Fisher and Waldenburg 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 Poinsett County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Poinsett County each year?
Trumann reported 453 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 652 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Poinsett County?
Look on the custody page of the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office at poinsettsheriffar.gov, or call 870-578-2116. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Poinsett County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Poinsett 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 Poinsett County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Poinsett 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 Poinsett 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.