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.
Halifax County, North Carolina, has about 47,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Halifax County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and one state agency. 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 Halifax 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: Halifax County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Halifax County
The Halifax County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Halifax County. It reported 711 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Halifax County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Roanoke Rapids, 14,573 residents: 467 arrests reported for 2025.
- Enfield, 1,791 residents: 160 arrests reported for 2021.
- Scotland Neck, 1,592 residents: 105 arrests reported for 2021.
- Weldon, 1,372 residents: 48 arrests reported for 2025.
- Littleton, 539 residents: 1,153 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Halifax County: the State Park Rangers at Medoc Mountain (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Halifax 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.
- Littleton: 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.
- Halifax County Sheriff's Office: 711 for 2025, 767 for 2024, 510 for 2023, 444 for 2022 and 350 for 2021.
- Roanoke Rapids: 467 for 2025, 595 for 2024, 607 for 2023, 786 for 2022, 684 for 2021 and 644 for 2020.
- Weldon: 48 for 2025, 71 for 2024, 81 for 2023, 82 for 2022, 83 for 2021 and 82 for 2020.
- Enfield: 160 for 2021, 185 for 2020 and 196 for 2019.
- Scotland Neck: 105 for 2021 and 124 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,379 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,379 in 2025 against 2,596 in 2024, down 8.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 881 arrests, against 953 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Halifax County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Halifax 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, up from about 84 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 85 beds, and it ran at 111 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 Halifax County Sheriff's Office at halifaxncsheriff.com/hcso-detention-center-inmate-search.html (page title: HCSO Detention Center Inmate Search | Halifax County NC Sheriff's Office), 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 Halifax County
Whether someone was arrested in Halifax County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Halifax County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Halifax 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/halifax-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 Halifax 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 Halifax County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Roanoke Rapids, Enfield, Scotland Neck, Weldon or Littleton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the State Park Rangers at Medoc Mountain: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Halifax County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/halifax-county.
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Halifax County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the seven cities in Halifax County: Roanoke Rapids, Enfield, Scotland Neck, Weldon and Littleton. Hobgood and Halifax 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 Halifax County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Halifax County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Roanoke Rapids (14,573)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Halifax County each year?
Littleton reported 1,153 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,379 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Halifax County?
Look on the custody page of the Halifax County Sheriff's Office at halifaxncsheriff.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Halifax County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Halifax County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Halifax County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Halifax 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 Halifax County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Halifax 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.
Is this the official Halifax 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.