Picayune Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Picayune

The FBI lists Picayune with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Picayune Police Department. It reported 593 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 Pearl River County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 889 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Pearl River County: Pearl River Community College at Poplarville (campus police).

How Many Arrests Picayune Reports

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.

• Picayune: 593 for 2025, 733 for 2023 and 541 for 2022; 2024 is missing months.

Through July 2026, Picayune reported 346 arrests, against 341 in the same months of 2025.

Across Pearl River County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,604 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Picayune Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Picayune 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 210 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 360 beds, and it ran at 57 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 Pearl River County Sheriff's Office at pearlrivercounty.net/222/County-Jail (page title: County Jail | Pearl River County, MS), phone 601-403-2538, 171 Savannah Millard Road Poplarville, MS 39470, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.

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 Picayune

For Picayune the place to look is the case index of the Pearl River County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at pearlrivercounty.net/195/Circuit-Court, phone 601-576-4650).

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 Picayune

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Picayune police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at picayune.ms.us/FormCenter/City-Clerk-Financial-4/Public-Records-Req... (page title: Form Center, Public Records Request), 203 Goodyear Boulevard Picayune, MS 39466, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 601-403-2538.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Pearl River County Circuit Court, through the court records page at pearlrivercounty.net/195/Circuit-Court, phone 601-576-4650.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at pearlriver.lib.ms.us/prq (page title: Public Records Request | Pearl River County Library System).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.

The Pearl River County guide covers every agency in the county: Pearl River County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Picayune each year?

Picayune reported 593 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Picayune?

Ask the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office at 601-403-2538; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pearlrivercounty.net/222/County-Jail.

Where are people arrested in Picayune booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Picayune?

The court files of criminal cases in the Pearl River 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 Picayune?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Picayune police for its own arrests, the Pearl River 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 pearlriver.lib.ms.us/prq.

Is this the official Picayune 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.