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 2025. 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 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
North Augusta, South Carolina, in Aiken County, has about 26,000 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 Aiken 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: North Augusta public records, Aiken County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in North Augusta
The FBI lists North Augusta with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as North Augusta Police Department. It reported 430 arrests for 2025. 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 Aiken County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,160 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Aiken County: United States Department of Energy Savannah River Plant, the Aiken County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Aiken County, Aiken County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and two more (state agency); the University of South Carolina at Aiken (campus police); the Highway Patrol in Aiken County (state police).
How Many Arrests North Augusta Reports
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.
- North Augusta: 430 for 2025, 390 for 2024, 487 for 2023, 585 for 2022, 645 for 2021 and 682 for 2020.
North Augusta's 430 arrests in 2025 were up 10 percent from 390 in 2024.
Through July 2026, North Augusta reported 303 arrests, against 248 in the same months of 2025.
Across Aiken County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,970 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in North Augusta Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in North Augusta 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 2021 the jail held about 380 people, down from about 400 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 376 beds, and it ran at 107 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 Aiken County Sheriff's Office at aikencountysheriff.net/185/Inmate-Search (page title: Inmate Search | Aiken County Sheriff, SC), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
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 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 North Augusta
Whether someone was arrested in North Augusta, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Aiken County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Aiken County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at aikencountysc.gov/292/Criminal-Cases).
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 North Augusta
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 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 North Augusta police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at northaugustasc.gov/residents/faqs (page title: FAQs | North Augusta, SC), phone (803) 441-4202, Monday-Friday 8:30A.M. - 5:00P.M., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Aiken County Circuit Court, through the court records page at aikencountysc.gov/292/Criminal-Cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at aikensc.justfoia.com/publicportal (page title: Aiken, SC Public Portal | JustFOIA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Aiken County guide covers every agency in the county: Aiken County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in North Augusta each year?
North Augusta reported 430 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in North Augusta booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in North Augusta?
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 North Augusta?
From the agency that made the arrest: the North Augusta police for its own arrests, the Aiken 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at aikensc.justfoia.com/publicportal.
Is this the official North Augusta 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.