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 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Lewisburg, Tennessee, in Marshall County, has about 13,000 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 District Attorney General files charges, a case in the Marshall County Circuit and Chancery Courts. 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: Lewisburg public records, Marshall County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lewisburg
The FBI lists Lewisburg with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lewisburg Police Department. It reported 621 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 Marshall County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 630 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Marshall County: the State Park Rangers's Chief Rangers Office (state agency); Drug Task Force's 17th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Lewisburg 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.
- Lewisburg: 621 for 2025, 634 for 2024, 425 for 2023, 397 for 2022, 349 for 2021 and 527 for 2020.
Lewisburg's 621 arrests in 2025 were down 2.1 percent from 634 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Lewisburg reported 382 arrests, against 457 in the same months of 2025.
Across Marshall County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,309 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lewisburg Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lewisburg 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 120 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 283 beds, and it ran at 41 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 Tennessee Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Lewisburg
An arrest in Lewisburg can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Marshall County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tncourts.gov/node/9782370); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-17).
Tennessee is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29 a search, through the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. 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 Lewisburg
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 business days, and it may charge copying, and labor after the first hour.
- An arrest by the Lewisburg police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at lewisburgtn.gov/departments/police/records-permits (page title: Records & Permits | City of Lewisburg, TN), phone 866-495-4206, 101 Water Street Lewisburg, TN 37091, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Marshall County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Marshall County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782370.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Marshall County guide covers every agency in the county: Marshall County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lewisburg each year?
Lewisburg reported 621 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Lewisburg booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Marshall County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lewisburg?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Tennessee Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Lewisburg?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lewisburg police for its own arrests, the Marshall County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days.
Is this the official Lewisburg 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.