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.
Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest 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 Pointe Coupee Parish. 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: Pointe Coupee Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pointe Coupee Parish
The Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pointe Coupee Parish. It reported 454 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
One city in Pointe Coupee Parish reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- New Roads, 4,295 residents: 1,152 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pointe Coupee Parish
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 Roads: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office: 454 for 2024, 208 for 2022, 308 for 2021, 599 for 2020 and 723 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,606 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 1,152 in 2024 against 1,146 in 2023, up 0.5 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pointe Coupee Parish Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Pointe Coupee Parish 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 2023 the jail held about 94 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 122 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office at pointecoupee.lavns.org (page title: Pointe Coupee Parish Jail), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists its inmates at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Pointe Coupee Parish
An arrest in Pointe Coupee Parish can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the District Court for Pointe Coupee Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at 18jdc.com); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 18thjda.org).
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 Pointe Coupee Parish
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 Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in New Roads: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Pointe Coupee Parish, through the court records page at 18jdc.com.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at pcparish.org (page title: Public Records Request Form | Pointe Coupée Parish Government).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Pointe Coupee Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Pointe Coupee Parish: New Roads. Livonia, Fordoche and Morganza have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the parish the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the parish jail and the case goes to the District Court for Pointe Coupee Parish.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pointe Coupee Parish each year?
New Roads reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Pointe Coupee Parish sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 1,606 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pointe Coupee Parish?
Ask the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pointecoupee.lavns.org.
Where are people arrested in Pointe Coupee Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pointe Coupee Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Pointe Coupee 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 Pointe Coupee Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 pcparish.org.
Is this the official Pointe Coupee Parish website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.