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 2025. 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 25, 2026.
Mooresville, North Carolina, in Iredell County, has about 53,000 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 Iredell 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: Mooresville public records, Iredell County arrest records, North Carolina arrest records and North Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Mooresville
The FBI lists Mooresville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Mooresville Police Department. It reported 1,452 arrests for 2025. 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 Iredell County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 3,366 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Iredell County: the State Park Rangers at Lake Norman (state agency).
How Many Arrests Mooresville 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.
- Mooresville: 1,452 for 2025, 1,083 for 2024, 1,104 for 2023, 1,340 for 2022, 1,198 for 2021 and 1,018 for 2020.
Mooresville's 1,452 arrests in 2025 were up 34 percent from 1,083 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Mooresville reported 1,018 arrests, against 927 in the same months of 2025.
Across Iredell County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,577 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mooresville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Mooresville 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 2024 the jail held about 770 people, up from about 340 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 277 beds, and it ran at 123 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 Iredell County Sheriff's Office at p2c.iredellcountync.gov/jailinmates.aspx (page title: Iredell County Sheriff's Office P2C), 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 Mooresville
An arrest in Mooresville can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Iredell 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/iredell-county); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at iredellcountync.gov/538/Clerk-of-Superior-Court-District-Attorne, phone 704-832-6600).
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 Mooresville
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 Mooresville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at mooresvillenc.gov/government/departments/police/index.php (page title: Town of Mooresville Police Department), phone (704) 664-3311, 2847 Charlotte Highway Mooresville, NC 28117, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Iredell County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 704-832-6600, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Iredell County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/iredell-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at iredellcountync.gov/724/Request (page title: Request | Iredell County, NC).
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
The Iredell County guide covers every agency in the county: Iredell County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mooresville each year?
Mooresville reported 1,452 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Mooresville?
Ask the Iredell County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at p2c.iredellcountync.gov/jailinmates.aspx.
Where are people arrested in Mooresville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Iredell County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mooresville?
The court files of criminal cases in the Iredell 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 Mooresville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Mooresville police for its own arrests, the Iredell 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at iredellcountync.gov/724/Request.
Is this the official Mooresville 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.