Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 26, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
New Iberia, Louisiana, in Iberia Parish, has about 27,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the parish jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Iberia Parish. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: New Iberia public records, Iberia Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in New Iberia
The FBI lists New Iberia with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as New Iberia Police Department. It reported 866 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 303 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests New Iberia Reports
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.
- New Iberia: 866 for 2025 and 766 for 2024.
New Iberia's 866 arrests in 2025 were up 13 percent from 766 in 2024.
Through July 2026, New Iberia reported 521 arrests, against 497 in the same months of 2025.
Across Iberia Parish, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,169 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in New Iberia Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in New Iberia is held at the parish jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 360 people, down from about 400 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 512 beds, and it ran at 78 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office at iberia.lavns.org (page title: Iberia Parish Jail), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in New Iberia
Whether someone was arrested in New Iberia, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Iberia Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at iberiaclerk.com, phone 337-365-7282); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at iberiaclerk.com/services/district-attorneys-office, phone 337-369-4420).
Louisiana does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in New Iberia
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 Louisiana Public Records Law the agency must answer within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.
- An arrest by the New Iberia police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at sthelenaso.org/louisiana/police-department/new-iberia-police-depart... (page title: New Iberia Police Department, Louisiana Jail Roster, Arrests, Contacts), phone 337-369-2307, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
- An arrest by the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 337-369-4420, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Iberia Parish, through the court records page at iberiaclerk.com, phone 337-365-7282.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at iberiaparishgovernment.com (page title: Public Records Request Us | Iberia Parish Government).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Iberia Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: Iberia Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in New Iberia each year?
New Iberia reported 866 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in New Iberia?
Ask the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at iberia.lavns.org.
Where are people arrested in New Iberia booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in New Iberia?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Iberia Parish are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Louisiana Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in New Iberia?
From the agency that made the arrest: the New Iberia police for its own arrests, the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the answer is due within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available; the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at iberiaparishgovernment.com.
Is this the official New Iberia website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.