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 October 2, 2026.
Cumberland County, Tennessee, has about 66,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one state 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 Cumberland 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: Cumberland County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cumberland County
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cumberland County. It reported 1,356 arrests for 2025.
One city in Cumberland County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Crossville, 12,785 residents: 695 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Cumberland County: the Wildlife Resources Agency's Region 3 (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cumberland 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.
- Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: 1,356 for 2025, 1,418 for 2024, 1,523 for 2023, 1,858 for 2022, 1,981 for 2020 and 1,929 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Crossville: 695 for 2025, 854 for 2024, 848 for 2023, 1,020 for 2022, 1,232 for 2020 and 1,304 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,051 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,051 in 2025 against 2,272 in 2024, down 9.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,253 arrests, against 1,377 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cumberland County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cumberland 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 150 people, down from about 200 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 212 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 custody page of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office at inmates.cumberlandcounty.revize.com/bookings (page title: Inmate Locator | Cumberland_County_ME_Inmates_App), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Cumberland County
An arrest in Cumberland County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Cumberland County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcountytn.gov/directory/circuit-court, phone 931-484-6647); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-13, phone 931-528-8598).
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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Crossville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Wildlife Resources Agency's Region 3: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, 931-528-8598, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cumberland County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at cumberlandcountytn.gov, phone 931-484-6647.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cumberland County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Cumberland County: Crossville. Crab Orchard and Pleasant Hill 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 Cumberland County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cumberland County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Crossville (12,785)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cumberland County each year?
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office reported 1,356 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,051 between them.
Where are people arrested in Cumberland County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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.