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.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, in Moore County, has about 17,000 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 Moore 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: Southern Pines public records, Moore County arrest records, North Carolina arrest records and North Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Southern Pines
The FBI lists Southern Pines with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Southern Pines Police Department. It reported 684 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 Moore County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,062 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Moore County: Firsthealth of the Carolinas and Moore County Schools (other); the State Park Rangers at Weymouth Woods/Sandhills Nature Preserve (state agency).
How Many Arrests Southern Pines 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.
- Southern Pines: 684 for 2025, 622 for 2024, 586 for 2023, 626 for 2022, 514 for 2021 and 360 for 2020.
Southern Pines's 684 arrests in 2025 were up 10 percent from 622 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Southern Pines reported 429 arrests, against 483 in the same months of 2025.
Across Moore County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,850 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Southern Pines Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Southern Pines 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 180 people, up from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 216 beds, and it ran at 81 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 Moore County Sheriff's Office at moorecountync.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=34 (page title: Quick Links, Detention Center), 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 Southern Pines
For Southern Pines the place to look is the case index of the Moore 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/moore-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 Southern Pines
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 Southern Pines police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at southernpines.net/271/Records (page title: Records | Southern Pines, NC), 450 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, Southern Pines, NC 28387, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Moore County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Moore County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/moore-county.
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
The Moore County guide covers every agency in the county: Moore County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Southern Pines each year?
Southern Pines reported 684 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Southern Pines?
Ask the Moore County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at moorecountync.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=34.
Where are people arrested in Southern Pines booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Moore County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Southern Pines?
The court files of criminal cases in the Moore 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 Southern Pines?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Southern Pines police for its own arrests, the Moore 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 Southern Pines 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.