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 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Martin, Tennessee, in Weakley County, has about 11,000 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 Weakley 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: Martin public records, Weakley County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Martin
The FBI lists Martin with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Martin Police Department. It reported 422 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 Weakley County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 983 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Weakley County: the University of Tennessee at Martin (campus police).
How Many Arrests Martin 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.
- Martin: 422 for 2024, 473 for 2023, 332 for 2022, 245 for 2021, 306 for 2020 and 474 for 2019.
Martin's 422 arrests in 2024 were down 11 percent from 473 in 2023.
Across Weakley County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,168 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Martin Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Martin 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 2024 the jail held about 94 people, up from about 89 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 129 beds, and it ran at 73 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 Weakley County Sheriff's Office at weakleycountytn.gov/sheriffdept.html (page title: Weakley County Sheriff's Department), phone (731) 364-5454, 7951 Highway 22 Dresden, TN 38225, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Martin
For Martin the place to look is the case index of the Weakley County Circuit and Chancery Courts, kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at weakleycountytn.gov/circuit-court.html (page title: Weakley County Circuit Court and General Sessions), phone 731-364-3455, belongs to a lower court, not to the Weakley County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
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 Martin
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 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 Martin police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofmartin.net/departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Martin), phone (731) 587-5355, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Weakley County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (731) 364-5454.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Weakley County Circuit and Chancery Courts it is kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at weakleycountytn.gov/circuit-court.html, phone 731-364-3455, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Weakley County guide covers every agency in the county: Weakley County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Martin each year?
Martin reported 422 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Martin?
Ask the Weakley County Sheriff's Office at (731) 364-5454; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at weakleycountytn.gov/sheriffdept.html.
Where are people arrested in Martin booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Weakley County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Martin?
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 Martin?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Martin police for its own arrests, the Weakley 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 Martin 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.