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 on September 26, 2026.
Horn Lake, Mississippi, in DeSoto County, 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 county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the DeSoto County Circuit Court. 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: Horn Lake public records, DeSoto County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Horn Lake
The FBI lists Horn Lake with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Horn Lake Police Department. It reported 954 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 DeSoto County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 4,128 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in DeSoto County: Northwest Mississippi Community College at Desoto (campus police).
How Many Arrests Horn Lake 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.
- Horn Lake: 954 for 2025, 859 for 2024, 887 for 2023, 794 for 2022, 481 for 2021 and 446 for 2020.
Horn Lake's 954 arrests in 2025 were up 11 percent from 859 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Horn Lake reported 599 arrests, against 553 in the same months of 2025.
Across DeSoto County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,326 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Horn Lake Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Horn Lake is held at the county 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 2023 the jail held about 450 people, up from about 390 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 568 beds, and it ran at 79 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Horn Lake
Mississippi does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center 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 Horn Lake
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 Mississippi Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow, and it may charge the actual cost of search, review and copying.
- An arrest by the Horn Lake police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at desotocountyms.gov/381/Public-Records-Request-Policy (page title: Public Records Request Policy | DeSoto County, MS), 365 Losher Street, Suite 300 Hernando, MS 38632, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at desotocountyms.gov (page title: Public Records Request Policy | DeSoto County, MS).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The DeSoto County guide covers every agency in the county: DeSoto County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Horn Lake each year?
Horn Lake reported 954 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Horn Lake booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Horn Lake?
The court files of criminal cases in the DeSoto County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Mississippi Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Horn Lake?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Horn Lake police for its own arrests, the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at desotocountyms.gov.
Is this the official Horn Lake 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.