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.
Crockett County, Tennessee, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Crockett County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. 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 Crockett 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: Crockett County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Crockett County
The Crockett County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Crockett County. It reported 275 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Crockett County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Bells, 2,474 residents: 29 arrests reported for 2024.
- Alamo, 2,334 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- Maury City, 595 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2020.
- Gadsden, 476 residents: 4 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Crockett 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.
- Crockett County Sheriff's Office: 275 for 2025, 373 for 2022, 567 for 2021 and 466 for 2019; 2020, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Bells: 29 for 2024, 30 for 2022, 22 for 2021, 26 for 2020 and 50 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Alamo: 17 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 20 for 2022, 64 for 2021, 70 for 2020 and 88 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Maury City: 15 for 2020 and 15 for 2019.
- Gadsden: 4 for 2020 and 12 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 423 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2022 and 2021 complete reported 423 in 2022 against 653 in 2021, down 35 percent.
Gadsden and Maury City reported only part of 2022 (7 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Crockett County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Crockett 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 48 people, down from about 50 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 64 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 Crockett County
An arrest in Crockett County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Crockett 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/9779782); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-28).
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 Crockett 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 Crockett County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Bells, Alamo, Maury City or Gadsden: 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 handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Crockett County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9779782.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Crockett County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the five cities in Crockett County: Bells, Alamo, Maury City and Gadsden. Friendship 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 Crockett County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Crockett County each year?
The Crockett County Sheriff's Office reported 275 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2022, the latest year most of the agencies in Crockett County sent in full, the three with every month on file reported 423 between them.
Where are people arrested in Crockett County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Crockett County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Crockett 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 Crockett County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Crockett 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 Crockett 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.