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.
Warren County, Mississippi, has about 42,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Warren County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Warren 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: Warren County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Warren County
The Warren County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Warren County. It reported 338 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Warren County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Vicksburg, 20,032 residents: 666 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 Vicksburg Reports
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.
- Vicksburg: 666 for 2025, 794 for 2024, 731 for 2023, 506 for 2022, 694 for 2021 and 3,857 for 2020.
- Warren County Sheriff's Office: 338 for 2020.
Vicksburg's 666 arrests in 2025 were down 16 percent from 794 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Vicksburg reported 229 arrests, against 384 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Warren County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Warren 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 94 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 120 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Warren County Sheriff's Office at co.warren.ms.us/elected-officials/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Warren County), phone (601) 636-1761, Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Warren County
An arrest in Warren County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Warren County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.ms.gov/mec/mec.php, phone 601-968-6628); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.warren.ms.us/elected-officials/district-attorney, phone (601) 636-5754).
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 Warren 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 Warren County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (601) 636-1761.
- An arrest in Vicksburg: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (601) 636-5754, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Warren County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.ms.gov/mec/mec.php, phone 601-968-6628.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Warren County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Vicksburg, the one city in Warren County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Warren County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Warren County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Vicksburg (20,032)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Warren County each year?
Vicksburg reported 666 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Warren County?
Ask the Warren County Sheriff's Office at (601) 636-1761; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.warren.ms.us/elected-officials/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Warren County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Warren County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Warren County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Warren 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 Warren County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Warren 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 Warren 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.