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.
Yalobusha County, Mississippi, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha 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: Yalobusha County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Yalobusha County
The Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Yalobusha County. It reported 1,152 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Yalobusha County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Water Valley, 3,409 residents: 194 arrests reported for 2025.
- Coffeeville, 779 residents.
- Oakland, 459 residents: 3 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 Yalobusha 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.
- Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Water Valley: 194 for 2025, 125 for 2024, 112 for 2023, 158 for 2022, 113 for 2021 and 126 for 2020.
- Oakland: 3 for 2025, 8 for 2023, 4 for 2022 and 24 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,349 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,346 in 2025 against 1,277 in 2024, up 5.4 percent.
Through March 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 319 arrests, against 327 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Yalobusha County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Yalobusha County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2016 the jail held about 33 people. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office at yalobushaonline.org/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Yalobusha County, Mississippi), phone 662.473.3602, 11803 Hwy 32 Water Valley MS 38965, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Yalobusha County
For Yalobusha County the place to look is the case index of the Yalobusha County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at yalobushaonline.org/circuit-clerk, phone 662.675.8187).
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 Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 662.473.3602.
- An arrest in Water Valley, Coffeeville or Oakland: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Yalobusha County Circuit Court, through the court records page at yalobushaonline.org/circuit-clerk, phone 662.675.8187.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Yalobusha County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Yalobusha County: Water Valley, Coffeeville and Oakland.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Yalobusha County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Yalobusha County each year?
The Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,349 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Yalobusha County?
Ask the Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office at 662.473.3602; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at yalobushaonline.org/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Yalobusha County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Yalobusha County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha 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.