Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Carroll County, Tennessee, has about 29,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one other agency. An arrest 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 Carroll County Circuit and Chancery Courts. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Carroll County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Carroll County
The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Carroll County. It reported 521 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- McKenzie, 5,603 residents: 157 arrests reported for 2025.
- Huntingdon, 4,502 residents: 68 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bruceton, 1,520 residents: 41 arrests reported for 2023.
- Trezevant, 813 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
- Hollow Rock, 702 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2020.
- Clarksburg, 387 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2020.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Carroll County: Drug Task Force's 24th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Carroll County
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.
- Carroll County Sheriff's Office: 521 for 2025, 658 for 2024, 890 for 2023, 962 for 2022, 910 for 2021 and 718 for 2020.
- McKenzie: 157 for 2025, 194 for 2024, 266 for 2023, 242 for 2022, 220 for 2021 and 233 for 2020.
- Huntingdon: 68 for 2025, 117 for 2024, 167 for 2023, 182 for 2022, 186 for 2021 and 88 for 2020.
- Bruceton: 41 for 2023, 39 for 2022, 7 for 2020 and 48 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Hollow Rock: 2 for 2020 and 6 for 2019.
- Clarksburg: 1 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
- Trezevant: 0 for 2020 and 10 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 1,364 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 1,364 in 2023 against 1,425 in 2022, down 4.3 percent.
Clarksburg and Trezevant reported only part of 2023 (1 month and 5 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Carroll County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Carroll County 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 130 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 170 beds, and it ran at 75 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 Carroll County
Whether someone was arrested in Carroll County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Carroll County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at carrollcountytn.gov/circuit_court.html, phone (731) 986-1932); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-24/our-staff).
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 Carroll County
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 Carroll County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in McKenzie, Huntingdon, Bruceton, Trezevant, Hollow Rock or Clarksburg: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Drug Task Force's 24th Judicial District: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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 Carroll County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at carrollcountytn.gov/circuit_court.html, phone (731) 986-1932.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Carroll County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the eight cities in Carroll County: McKenzie, Huntingdon, Bruceton, Trezevant, Hollow Rock and Clarksburg. Atwood and McLemoresville have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Carroll County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Carroll County each year?
The Carroll County Sheriff's Office reported 521 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Carroll County sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 1,364 between them.
Where are people arrested in Carroll County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Carroll County?
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 Carroll County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Carroll County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days.
Is this the official Carroll County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.