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.
Tishomingo County, Mississippi, has about 19,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office and three city agencies. 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 Tishomingo 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: Tishomingo County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tishomingo County
The Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tishomingo County. It reported 291 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Iuka, 3,075 residents: 74 arrests reported for 2024.
- Belmont, 1,817 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Golden, 185 residents: 1,152 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tishomingo 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.
- Belmont: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Golden: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office: 291 for 2025, 193 for 2024, 76 for 2023, 89 for 2022, 107 for 2021 and 147 for 2020.
- Iuka: 74 for 2024, 58 for 2023, 151 for 2020 and 215 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,595 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,595 in 2025 against 2,497 in 2024, up 3.9 percent.
Through May 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 980 arrests, against 1,105 in the same months of 2025.
Iuka reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tishomingo County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Tishomingo 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 110 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 168 beds, and it ran at 67 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Tishomingo County
For Tishomingo County the place to look is the case index of the Tishomingo County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.tishomingo.ms.us/courts, phone (662) 423-7033).
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 Tishomingo 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 Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Iuka, Belmont or Golden: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Tishomingo County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.tishomingo.ms.us/courts, phone (662) 423-7033.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Tishomingo County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Tishomingo County: Iuka, Belmont and Golden. Burnsville, Tishomingo and Paden have 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 Tishomingo County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tishomingo County each year?
Belmont reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,595 between them.
Where are people arrested in Tishomingo County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tishomingo County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Tishomingo 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 Tishomingo County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tishomingo 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 Tishomingo 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.