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.
Pearl River County, Mississippi, has about 59,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Pearl River County 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: Pearl River County public records, Pearl River County arrest records, Pearl River County inmate search, Pearl River County criminal records, Pearl River County court records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Pearl River County
In Mississippi an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Pearl River County 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.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is 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 Pearl River County
The Pearl River County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Picayune and Poplarville serve warrants in Pearl River County.
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.
The agency that serves a warrant from Pearl River County is whichever one finds the person; an Mississippi warrant is valid across Mississippi.
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 Pearl River County arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Pearl River 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 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 Pearl River County inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Pearl River 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 Pearl River County
The place to check for a warrant from Pearl River County 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 Pearl River County
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Pearl River County 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 Pearl River County?
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 Pearl River County?
The Pearl River 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 Pearl River County held?
At the county jail, run by the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Pearl River 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 601-576-4650.
Is this the official Pearl River 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.