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 30, 2026.
Dyer County, Tennessee, has about 36,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dyer County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Dyer 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: Dyer County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dyer County
The Dyer County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dyer County. It reported 311 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Dyersburg, 15,915 residents: 1,869 arrests reported for 2025.
- Newbern, 3,247 residents: 77 arrests reported for 2025.
- Trimble, 532 residents: 3 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 Dyer 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.
- Dyersburg: 1,869 for 2025, 1,834 for 2024, 2,026 for 2023, 2,059 for 2022, 1,979 for 2021 and 2,070 for 2020.
- Dyer County Sheriff's Office: 311 for 2024, 407 for 2021, 429 for 2020 and 703 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Newbern: 77 for 2025, 179 for 2024, 145 for 2023, 127 for 2022, 116 for 2021 and 106 for 2020.
- Trimble: 3 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 2,324 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 2,013 in 2024 against 2,171 in 2023, down 7.3 percent.
Trimble reported only part of 2024 (5 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dyer County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Dyer 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 230 people, down from about 250 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 236 beds, and it ran at 97 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 Dyer County Sheriff's Office at dyercountysheriff.com/programs/12-crime-stoppers/49-public-jail-roster (page title: Public Jail Roster | Dyer County Sheriff's Office | Tennessee), phone 731.285.2802, 401 East Cedar Street Dyersburg, TN 38024, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Dyer County
An arrest in Dyer County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Dyer County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Dyer 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/clerks/all/all?tid=23); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-29).
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 Dyer 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 Dyer County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 731.285.2802.
- An arrest in Dyersburg, Newbern or Trimble: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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 Dyer County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/clerks/all/all?tid=23.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Dyer County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Dyer County: Dyersburg, Newbern and Trimble.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Dyer County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Dyer County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Dyersburg (15,915)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dyer County each year?
Dyersburg reported 1,869 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Dyer County sent in full, the three with every month on file reported 2,324 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dyer County?
Look on the custody page of the Dyer County Sheriff's Office at dyercountysheriff.com, or call 731.285.2802. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Dyer County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dyer County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dyer 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 Dyer County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dyer 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 Dyer 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.