Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2023. 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 23, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Brevard, North Carolina, in Transylvania County, has about 8,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city 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 Transylvania County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Brevard public records, Transylvania County arrest records, North Carolina arrest records and North Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Brevard
The FBI lists Brevard with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Brevard Police Department. It reported 304 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 490 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Transylvania County: the State Park Rangers at Gorges (state agency).
How Many Arrests Brevard 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.
- Brevard: 304 for 2023, 421 for 2022, 421 for 2021, 458 for 2020 and 546 for 2019.
Brevard's 304 arrests in 2023 were down 28 percent from 421 in 2022.
Across Transylvania County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 837 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brevard Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brevard 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 2024 the jail held about 56 people, down from about 83 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 114 beds, and it ran at 73 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 Transylvania County Sheriff's Office at transylvaniacounty.org/departments/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Transylvania County), phone 828-884-3169, 153 Public Safety Way, Brevard, NC 28712, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, whose inmate locator is at dac.nc.gov/dac-services/criminal-offender-searches.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Brevard
For Brevard the place to look is the case index of the Transylvania County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at nccourts.gov/locations/transylvania-county).
Statewide, eCourts Portal is the North Carolina Judicial Branch's free statewide case search.
North Carolina does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation 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 Brevard
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the North Carolina Public Records Act the agency must answer as promptly as possible; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Brevard police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofbrevard.com/173/Police (page title: Brevard Police Department | Brevard, NC), phone 828-883-2212, 132 Commerce Street Brevard, NC 28712, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 828-884-3169.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Transylvania County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/transylvania-county.
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
The Transylvania County guide covers every agency in the county: Transylvania County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brevard each year?
Brevard reported 304 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brevard?
Ask the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office at 828-884-3169; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at transylvaniacounty.org.
Where are people arrested in Brevard booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brevard?
The court files of criminal cases in the Transylvania County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the North Carolina Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Brevard?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brevard police for its own arrests, the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the North Carolina Public Records Act the answer is due as promptly as possible; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Brevard website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.