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 October 4, 2026.
McMinnville, Tennessee, in Warren County, has about 14,000 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 Warren 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: McMinnville public records, Warren County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in McMinnville
The FBI lists McMinnville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as McMinnville Police Department. It reported 618 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 Warren County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,536 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Warren County: Drug Task Force's 31st Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests McMinnville 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.
- McMinnville: 618 for 2025, 550 for 2024, 618 for 2023, 643 for 2022, 761 for 2021 and 739 for 2020.
McMinnville's 618 arrests in 2025 were up 12 percent from 550 in 2024.
Through August 2026, McMinnville reported 413 arrests, against 423 in the same months of 2025.
Across Warren County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,154 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in McMinnville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in McMinnville 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 260 people, down from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 251 beds, and it ran at 103 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 Warren County Sheriff's Office at warrencountytn.gov/government/sheriff_s_department/index.php (page title: Warrren County, TN), phone 931.473.7863, 108 Security Circle McMinnville, TN 37110, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 McMinnville
For McMinnville the place to look is the case index of the Warren County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at warrencountytn.gov/government/courts/index.php).
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 McMinnville
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 McMinnville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at mcminnvilletn.gov/departments/police/records.php (page title: Records), phone 931.473.5377, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Warren County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 931.473.7863.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Warren County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at warrencountytn.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Warren County guide covers every agency in the county: Warren County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in McMinnville each year?
McMinnville reported 618 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in McMinnville?
Ask the Warren County Sheriff's Office at 931.473.7863; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at warrencountytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in McMinnville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Warren County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in McMinnville?
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 McMinnville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the McMinnville police for its own arrests, the Warren 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 McMinnville 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.