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.
Moore County, North Carolina, has about 108,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Moore County Sheriff's Office, ten city agencies and three campus, state or other 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 Moore 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: Moore County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Moore County
The Moore County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Moore County. It reported 2,062 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists ten cities in Moore County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Pinehurst, 18,502 residents: 189 arrests reported for 2025.
- Southern Pines, 16,987 residents: 684 arrests reported for 2025.
- Aberdeen, 9,573 residents: 560 arrests reported for 2025.
- Whispering Pines, 5,416 residents: 74 arrests reported for 2025.
- Carthage, 2,999 residents: 210 arrests reported for 2022.
- Pinebluff, 1,540 residents: 74 arrests reported for 2024.
- Foxfire, 1,401 residents: 44 arrests reported for 2025.
- Robbins, 1,270 residents: 164 arrests reported for 2025.
- Vass, 1,035 residents: 65 arrests reported for 2025.
- Taylortown, 687 residents: 8 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 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 Each Agency Reports in Moore County
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.
- Moore County Sheriff's Office: 2,062 for 2025, 1,828 for 2024, 1,764 for 2023, 1,811 for 2022, 2,081 for 2021 and 2,261 for 2020.
- Southern Pines: 684 for 2025, 622 for 2024, 586 for 2023, 626 for 2022, 514 for 2021 and 360 for 2020.
- Aberdeen: 560 for 2025, 576 for 2024, 639 for 2023, 572 for 2022, 513 for 2021 and 506 for 2020.
- Pinehurst: 189 for 2025, 167 for 2024, 214 for 2023, 322 for 2022, 376 for 2021 and 359 for 2020.
- Robbins: 164 for 2025, 270 for 2024, 297 for 2023, 319 for 2022, 198 for 2021 and 125 for 2020.
- Whispering Pines: 74 for 2025, 74 for 2024, 105 for 2023, 90 for 2022, 69 for 2021 and 76 for 2020.
- Vass: 65 for 2025, 29 for 2023, 24 for 2022, 41 for 2021 and 52 for 2020; 2024 is missing months.
- Foxfire: 44 for 2025, 44 for 2024, 67 for 2023, 60 for 2022, 16 for 2021 and 12 for 2020.
- Taylortown: 8 for 2025, 9 for 2021, 8 for 2020 and 8 for 2019; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Carthage: 210 for 2022, 182 for 2021, 157 for 2020 and 199 for 2019.
- Pinebluff: 74 for 2024, 59 for 2023, 9 for 2022, 7 for 2021 and 4 for 2020.
Together, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,850 arrests that year. The seven of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,777 in 2025 against 3,581 in 2024, up 5.5 percent.
Through July 2026, the eight agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,005 arrests, against 2,308 in the same months of 2025.
Pinebluff reported only part of 2025 (3 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Moore County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Moore 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 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 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 Moore County
Whether someone was arrested in Moore County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-ncmd-1_09-cv-00990).
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 Moore 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 Moore County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Whispering Pines, Carthage, Pinebluff or another of the cities listed above: 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 Firsthealth of the Carolinas, the State Park Rangers at Weymouth Woods/Sandhills Nature Preserve or Moore County Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- 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 other Moore County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Moore County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for ten of the 11 cities in Moore County: Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Whispering Pines, Carthage, Pinebluff, Foxfire, Robbins, Vass and Taylortown. Cameron has 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 Moore County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Moore County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Pinehurst (18,502)
- Southern Pines (16,987)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Moore County each year?
The Moore County Sheriff's Office reported 2,062 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the nine agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,850 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Moore County?
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 Moore County 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 Moore County?
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 Moore County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Moore 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 Moore 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.