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 between September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Currituck County, North Carolina, has about 32,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Currituck County Sheriff's Office. 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 Currituck County Superior 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Currituck County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Currituck County
The Currituck County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Currituck County. It reported 844 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Currituck County Sheriff's Office Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Currituck County Sheriff's Office: 844 for 2025, 657 for 2024, 759 for 2023, 717 for 2022, 806 for 2021 and 835 for 2020.
The Currituck County Sheriff's Office's 844 arrests in 2025 were up 28 percent from 657 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Currituck County Sheriff's Office reported 519 arrests, against 522 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Currituck County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Currituck 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 2024 the jail held about 46 people, up from about 28 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 62 beds, and it ran at 45 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 Currituck County Sheriff's Office at currituckcountync.gov/sheriffs-office/detention-center (page title: Detention Center | Currituck County), phone 252-453-3633, Monday to Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction lists its inmates at dac.nc.gov/dac-services/criminal-offender-searches.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Currituck County
An arrest in Currituck County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Currituck 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/currituck-county); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at nccourts.gov/taxonomy/term/557, phone (252) 232-6200).
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 Currituck 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 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 Currituck County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 252-453-3633.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (252) 232-6200, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Currituck County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/currituck-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at currituckcountync.nextrequest.com (page title: Currituck County Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
The other Currituck County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Currituck County each year?
The Currituck County Sheriff's Office reported 844 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Currituck County?
Ask the Currituck County Sheriff's Office at 252-453-3633; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at currituckcountync.gov.
Where are people arrested in Currituck County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Currituck County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Currituck County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Currituck 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 Currituck County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Currituck County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 currituckcountync.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Currituck 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.