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 between September 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Chester County, Tennessee, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Chester County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Chester 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: Chester County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Chester County
The Chester County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Chester County. It reported 222 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Chester County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Henderson, 6,519 residents: 153 arrests reported for 2025.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Chester County
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.
- Chester County Sheriff's Office: 222 for 2025, 197 for 2024, 227 for 2023, 259 for 2022, 341 for 2021 and 83 for 2020.
- Henderson: 153 for 2025, 226 for 2024, 142 for 2023, 184 for 2022, 190 for 2021 and 239 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 375 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 375 in 2025 against 423 in 2024, down 11 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 137 arrests, against 248 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Chester County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Chester County 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 71 people, down from about 83 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 81 beds, and it ran at 87 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 Chester County Sheriff's Office at chestercountytn.org/sheriff_deputies.html (page title: Chester County, TN), phone (731) 989-2787, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Chester County
An arrest in Chester County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Chester 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/courts/supreme-court/public-case-history); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at chestercountytn.org/county_attorney.html, phone (731) 426-8128).
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 Chester County
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 Chester County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (731) 989-2787.
- An arrest in Henderson: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, (731) 426-8128, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Chester County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Chester County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Chester County: Henderson. Enville has 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 Chester County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Chester County each year?
The Chester County Sheriff's Office reported 222 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 375 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Chester County?
Ask the Chester County Sheriff's Office at (731) 989-2787; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at chestercountytn.org/sheriff_deputies.html.
Where are people arrested in Chester County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Chester County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Chester 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 Chester County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Chester 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 Chester 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.