Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2024. 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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Bennettsville, South Carolina, in Marlboro County, has about 7,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Solicitor files charges, a case in the Marlboro County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Bennettsville public records, Marlboro County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Bennettsville
The FBI lists Bennettsville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bennettsville Police Department. It reported 222 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Marlboro County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 439 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Marlboro County: Marlboro County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Department of Natural Resources in Marlboro County, the Marlboro County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Marlboro County and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Marlboro County (state police).
How Many Arrests Bennettsville Reports
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.
- Bennettsville: 222 for 2024, 272 for 2023, 257 for 2021, 345 for 2020 and 487 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Bennettsville's 222 arrests in 2024 were down 18 percent from 272 in 2023.
Across Marlboro County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 620 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bennettsville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bennettsville 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 2019 the jail held about 48 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 49 beds, and it ran at 98 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bennettsville
For Bennettsville the place to look is the case index of the Marlboro County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sccourts.org/courts/courthouse-search/marlboro, phone (843) 479-5615).
South Carolina is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25 a search, through the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Bennettsville
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old, and it may charge search, retrieval and copying at the agency's actual cost.
- An arrest by the Bennettsville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at bennettsvillesc.com/police (page title: Police | City of Bennettsville, SC), phone (843) 479-3620, 254 Highway 15-401 Bypass East Bennettsville, SC 29512, Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Marlboro County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Marlboro County Circuit Court, through the court records page at sccourts.org, phone (843) 479-5615.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Marlboro County guide covers every agency in the county: Marlboro County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bennettsville each year?
Bennettsville reported 222 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Bennettsville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Marlboro County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bennettsville?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Bennettsville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bennettsville police for its own arrests, the Marlboro County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old.
Is this the official Bennettsville 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.