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 on September 24, 2026.
Lee County, Mississippi, has about 83,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Lee County comes from a judge of the Lee 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: Lee County public records, Lee County arrest records, Lee County inmate search, Lee County criminal records, Lee County court records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Lee County
In Mississippi an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Lee County that means the Lee 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.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courts.ms.gov/mec/mec.php (page title: Mississippi Electronic Courts (MEC) | State of Mississippi Judiciary), phone 601-968-6628, 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 Lee County
The Lee County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Tupelo, Saltillo, Verona and Guntown serve warrants in Lee County.
The Baldwyn Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Lee County, so its arrests are not broken out for Lee County here.
A warrant issued in Lee 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 five agencies in Lee County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,938 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Lee County arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Lee County 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 Lee County Sheriff's Office, held about 200 people on an average day in 2023 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a custody page SearchSystems verified at leecosheriff.com/inmate-search, phone (662) 432-2600. The Lee County inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Lee County on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Lee County
Whether a warrant is out from Lee County shows in two places:
- 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 601-968-6628, since a warrant is recorded in the case it was issued in.
- The custody page of the Lee County Sheriff's Office at leecosheriff.com/inmate-search, which shows people already arrested and booked, not open warrants.
Not one of the Lee County pages SearchSystems verified (the sheriff's and the court's) 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 Lee County
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Lee County that means appearing before the Lee 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 Lee County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Lee County?
Not from the Lee 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 601-968-6628.
Who serves warrants in Lee County?
The Lee County Sheriff's Office, and the agency that reports for the city where the person is found; an Mississippi warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Lee County held?
At the county jail, run by the Lee County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Lee County 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 601-968-6628.
Is this the official Lee 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.