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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 30, 2026.
Grenada County, Mississippi, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Grenada County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one campus agency. An arrest 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 Grenada County Circuit Court. 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: Grenada County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Grenada County
The Grenada County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Grenada County. It reported 300 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Grenada County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Grenada, 12,138 residents: 908 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Grenada County: Holmes Community College at Grenada (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Grenada County
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.
- Grenada: 908 for 2025.
- Grenada County Sheriff's Office: 300 for 2025, 231 for 2024, 204 for 2023, 179 for 2022, 101 for 2021 and 111 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,208 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 300 in 2025 against 231 in 2024, up 30 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 665 arrests, against 672 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Grenada County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Grenada County 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.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Mississippi Department of Corrections lists its inmates at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Grenada County
For Grenada County the place to look is the case index of the Grenada County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at fifth.circuit.mec.ms.gov/cgi-bin/CourtInfo.pl, phone 662-289-1471).
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 Grenada County
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 Grenada County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Grenada: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Holmes Community College at Grenada: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Grenada County Circuit Court, through the court records page at fifth.circuit.mec.ms.gov/cgi-bin/CourtInfo.pl, phone 662-289-1471.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Grenada County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Grenada, the one city in Grenada County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Grenada County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Grenada County each year?
Grenada reported 908 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,208 between them.
Where are people arrested in Grenada County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Grenada County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Grenada County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Grenada 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 Grenada County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Grenada County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow.
Is this the official Grenada County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.