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.
Port Jervis, New York, in Orange County, has about 8,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Port Jervis comes from a judge of the Orange County Supreme and County Courts or the city, town and village courts, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Port Jervis public records, Orange County warrants, Port Jervis arrest records, Port Jervis inmate search, Port Jervis criminal records, Port Jervis court records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Port Jervis
In New York an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Port Jervis that means the Orange County Supreme and County Courts, which hear divorces and major civil cases in the Supreme Court, felonies in the County Court; the city, town and village courts, which take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small claims, issue their own warrants on the cases before them.
A bench warrant follows a missed court date in any of those courts. Whichever kind it is, the warrant is part of the file of the case it was issued in, and the County Clerk keeps that file.
For Orange County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/CaseSearch (page title: NYSCEF Case Search | NY iApps | Unified Court System), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
Statewide, eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily).
Who Serves Warrants in Port Jervis
The Orange County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Port Jervis (filed by the FBI as Port Jervis Police Department) serve warrants in and around Port Jervis.
A warrant issued in Orange County is good anywhere in New York, so it is served by whichever agency finds the person, in a traffic stop as often as at the door.
Together, the 29 agencies in Orange County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,277 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Port Jervis arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Port Jervis Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, held about 380 people on an average day so far in 2026 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a jail page SearchSystems verified at orangecountyny.gov/2328/Sheriffs-Office. The Port Jervis inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Port Jervis on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Port Jervis
The place to check for a warrant from Port Jervis is eCourts, the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily), for a case whose register of actions shows a warrant.
The one Orange County page SearchSystems verified, the records request page, is not a list of open warrants.
Clearing a Warrant from Port Jervis
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Port Jervis that means appearing before the Orange County Supreme and County Courts or the city, town and village courts, with the case put back on the calendar through the County Clerk.
A missed date in a case before the city, town and village courts is handled by that court, not by the Orange County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Port Jervis?
Not from the Orange County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily), and a case whose register of actions shows a warrant is the record of it. The court that issued it keeps the record; ask the County Clerk.
Who serves warrants in Port Jervis?
The agency that reports for Port Jervis inside the city and the Orange County Sheriff's Office outside it, or whichever agency finds the person; an New York warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Port Jervis held?
At the county jail, run by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Port Jervis cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the County Clerk.
Is this the official Port Jervis 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.