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 4, 2026.
Pike County, Mississippi, has about 39,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pike County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies 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 Pike 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: Pike County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pike County
The Pike County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pike County. It reported 116 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Pike County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- McComb, 11,762 residents.
- Magnolia, 1,816 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Summit, 1,438 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
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 Pike County: Southwest Mississippi Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pike County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Magnolia: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Pike County Sheriff's Office: 116 for 2025 and 250 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
- Summit: 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,268 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,152 in 2025 against 1,152 in 2024.
McComb reported only part of 2025 (2 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pike County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pike County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 150 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 141 beds, and it ran at 106 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 Pike County Sheriff's Office at co.pike.ms.us/departments/sheriffs-office (page title: Pike County Sheriff’s Department | Pike County), phone (601) 783-2323, 1201 B North Clark St. Magnolia, MS 39652, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Pike County
Whether someone was arrested in Pike County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Pike County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.pike.ms.us/view-circuit-court-case-info); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.pike.ms.us/district-attorney, phone 601-783-6677).
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 Pike County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Pike County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (601) 783-2323.
- An arrest in McComb, Magnolia or Summit: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Southwest Mississippi Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 601-783-6677, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pike County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.pike.ms.us/view-circuit-court-case-info.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.pike.ms.us (page title: Public Records Request Information | Pike County).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Pike County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Pike County: McComb, Magnolia and Summit. Osyka has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Pike County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Pike County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- McComb (11,762)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pike County each year?
Magnolia reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,268 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pike County?
Ask the Pike County Sheriff's Office at (601) 783-2323; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.pike.ms.us/departments/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Pike County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pike County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pike County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Pike 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 Pike County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pike 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.pike.ms.us.
Is this the official Pike 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.