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.
Gibson County, Tennessee, has about 51,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gibson County Sheriff's Office and nine 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 Gibson 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: Gibson County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gibson County
The Gibson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gibson County. It reported 894 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists nine cities in Gibson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Milan, 8,306 residents: 482 arrests reported for 2025.
- Humboldt, 7,852 residents: 248 arrests reported for 2025.
- Medina, 5,681 residents: 46 arrests reported for 2025.
- Trenton, 4,111 residents: 90 arrests reported for 2025.
- Dyer, 2,328 residents: 38 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kenton, 1,250 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2022.
- Rutherford, 1,149 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2024.
- Bradford, 1,002 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2021.
- Gibson, 372 residents: 6 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 Gibson 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.
- Gibson County Sheriff's Office: 894 for 2025, 1,072 for 2024, 1,121 for 2023, 1,149 for 2022, 1,220 for 2021 and 1,023 for 2020.
- Milan: 482 for 2025, 456 for 2024, 501 for 2023, 424 for 2022, 475 for 2021 and 442 for 2020.
- Humboldt: 248 for 2025, 210 for 2024, 229 for 2023, 301 for 2022, 346 for 2021 and 328 for 2020.
- Trenton: 90 for 2025, 211 for 2021, 193 for 2020 and 239 for 2019; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Medina: 46 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 80 for 2023, 90 for 2022, 97 for 2021 and 91 for 2020.
- Dyer: 38 for 2025, 56 for 2024, 38 for 2022, 22 for 2021, 29 for 2020 and 32 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Rutherford: 33 for 2024, 6 for 2020 and 13 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Bradford: 20 for 2021, 13 for 2020 and 19 for 2019.
- Kenton: 16 for 2022, 10 for 2021, 5 for 2020 and 14 for 2019.
- Gibson: 6 for 2020 and 12 for 2019.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,798 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,708 in 2025 against 1,840 in 2024, down 7.2 percent.
Rutherford, Bradford and Kenton reported only part of 2025 (7 months, 6 months and 7 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gibson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gibson 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 250 people, down from about 290 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 329 beds, and it ran at 76 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 Gibson County Sheriff's Office at gibsoncountysheriff.com/jail (page title: Jail | Gibson County Sheriff), phone 866-340-7879, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Tennessee Department of Correction lists its inmates at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Gibson County
An arrest in Gibson County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Gibson 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/9782335); 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 Gibson 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 Gibson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 866-340-7879.
- An arrest in Milan, Humboldt, Medina, Trenton, Dyer, Kenton or another of the cities listed above: 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 Gibson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782335.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Gibson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the ten cities in Gibson County: Milan, Humboldt, Medina, Trenton, Dyer, Kenton, Rutherford, Bradford and Gibson. Yorkville 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 Gibson County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Gibson County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gibson County each year?
The Gibson County Sheriff's Office reported 894 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,798 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gibson County?
Ask the Gibson County Sheriff's Office at 866-340-7879; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gibsoncountysheriff.com/jail.
Where are people arrested in Gibson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gibson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gibson 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 Gibson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gibson 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 Gibson 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.