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 October 2, 2026.
Picayune, Mississippi, in Pearl River County, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Picayune comes from a judge of the Pearl River County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Picayune public records, Pearl River County warrants, Picayune arrest records, Picayune inmate search, Picayune criminal records, Picayune court records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Picayune
In Mississippi an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Picayune that means the Pearl River County Circuit Court, which hears felonies and the larger civil cases; the Justice Court and County Court issue their own warrants on the cases before them. A city with a municipal court of its own issues warrants on the tickets and ordinance cases it tries.
A bench warrant follows a missed court date in any of those courts. Whichever kind it is, the warrant is part of the file of the case it was issued in, and the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records keep that file.
For Pearl River County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at pearlrivercounty.net/195/Circuit-Court (page title: Circuit Court | Pearl River County, MS), phone 601-576-4650, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Mississippi has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
Who Serves Warrants in Picayune
The Pearl River County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Picayune (filed by the FBI as Picayune Police Department) serve warrants in and around Picayune.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Pearl River County: Pearl River Community College at Poplarville (campus police); it serves warrants on its own ground.
The Lumberton Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Pearl River County, so its arrests are not broken out for Pearl River County here.
A warrant issued in Pearl River County is good anywhere in Mississippi, so it is served by whichever agency finds the person, in a traffic stop as often as at the door.
Together, the three agencies in Pearl River County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,604 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Picayune arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Picayune Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office, held about 210 people on an average day in 2019 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a jail page SearchSystems verified at pearlrivercounty.net/222/County-Jail, phone 601-403-2538. The Picayune inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Picayune on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Picayune
The place to check for a warrant from Picayune is the court file of the case, through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 601-576-4650, since a warrant is recorded in the case it was issued in.
Not one of the Pearl River County pages SearchSystems verified (the sheriff's, the court's and the records request page) is a list of open warrants, so a check means asking the court or the prosecutor about a case by name.
The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not open to the public in Mississippi, so it is not a route to a warrant check on someone else.
Clearing a Warrant from Picayune
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Picayune that means appearing before the Pearl River County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court, with the case put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records.
A missed date in a case before the Justice Court and County Court is handled by that court, not by the Pearl River County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Picayune?
Not from the Pearl River County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. The court file is the record of a warrant: ask the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 601-576-4650.
Who serves warrants in Picayune?
The agency that reports for Picayune inside the city and the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office outside it, or whichever agency finds the person; an Mississippi warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Picayune held?
At the county jail, run by the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Picayune cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 601-576-4650.
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.