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 23, 2026.
Duplin County, North Carolina, has about 51,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Duplin County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Duplin 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, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Duplin County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Duplin County
The Duplin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Duplin County. It reported 719 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Wallace, 3,531 residents: 195 arrests reported for 2025.
- Warsaw, 2,803 residents: 125 arrests reported for 2025.
- Rose Hill, 1,407 residents: 1,153 arrests reported for 2025.
- Beulaville, 1,160 residents: 149 arrests reported for 2025.
- Magnolia, 867 residents: 12 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kenansville, 773 residents: 75 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.
The Mount Olive Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Duplin County, so its arrests are not broken out for Duplin County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Duplin County
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.
- Rose Hill: 1,153 for 2025, 1,163 for 2024, 1,164 for 2023, 1,164 for 2022, 1,164 for 2021 and 1,144 for 2020.
- Duplin County Sheriff's Office: 719 for 2025, 690 for 2024, 942 for 2023, 753 for 2022, 736 for 2021 and 712 for 2020.
- Wallace: 195 for 2025, 208 for 2024, 199 for 2023, 227 for 2022 and 128 for 2021.
- Beulaville: 149 for 2025, 85 for 2024, 70 for 2023, 59 for 2022, 43 for 2021 and 53 for 2020.
- Warsaw: 125 for 2025, 143 for 2024, 181 for 2023, 170 for 2022, 169 for 2021 and 90 for 2020.
- Kenansville: 75 for 2025, 65 for 2024, 30 for 2023, 9 for 2021, 15 for 2020 and 14 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Magnolia: 12 for 2025 and 6 for 2022; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,428 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,416 in 2025 against 2,354 in 2024, up 2.6 percent.
Through July 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,396 arrests, against 1,412 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Duplin County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Duplin County 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 100 people, down from about 110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022, the last year with a capacity figure, was 95 beds, and it ran at 110 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Duplin County Sheriff's Office at duplinnc.gov/404/Inmate-Search (page title: Inmate Search | Duplin County, NC), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Duplin County
Whether someone was arrested in Duplin County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Duplin County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Duplin 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/duplin-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 Duplin County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Duplin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Wallace, Warsaw, Rose Hill, Beulaville, Magnolia or Kenansville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Duplin County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/duplin-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at duplinnc.gov/506/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Duplin County, NC).
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Duplin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the ten cities in Duplin County: Wallace, Warsaw, Rose Hill, Beulaville, Magnolia and Kenansville. Faison, Greenevers, Teachey and Calypso have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Duplin County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Duplin County each year?
Rose Hill reported 1,153 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,428 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Duplin County?
Look on the custody page of the Duplin County Sheriff's Office at duplinnc.gov/404/Inmate-Search. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Duplin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Duplin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Duplin County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Duplin 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 Duplin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Duplin 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 duplinnc.gov/506/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official Duplin 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.