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.
Hardeman County, Tennessee, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hardeman County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Hardeman 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: Hardeman County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hardeman County
The Hardeman County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hardeman County. It reported 578 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Hardeman County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Bolivar, 5,084 residents: 417 arrests reported for 2025.
- Whiteville, 4,564 residents: 45 arrests reported for 2025.
- Middleton, 737 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
- Grand Junction, 330 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2020.
- Toone, 265 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2020.
- Hickory Valley, 79 residents: 1,188 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 Hardeman 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.
- Hickory Valley: 1,188 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,188 for 2023, 1,188 for 2022, 1,188 for 2021 and 1,200 for 2020.
- Hardeman County Sheriff's Office: 578 for 2025, 598 for 2024, 651 for 2023, 689 for 2022, 552 for 2020 and 656 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Bolivar: 417 for 2025, 352 for 2024, 346 for 2023, 395 for 2022, 345 for 2021 and 372 for 2020.
- Whiteville: 45 for 2025, 59 for 2024, 34 for 2023, 33 for 2022, 14 for 2021 and 34 for 2020.
- Grand Junction: 8 for 2020 and 8 for 2019.
- Toone: 5 for 2020 and 7 for 2019.
- Middleton: 0 for 2020 and 6 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 2,197 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 2,197 in 2024 against 2,219 in 2023, down 1 percent.
Toone reported only part of 2024 (6 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hardeman County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hardeman 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 110 people, up from about 110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 179 beds, and it ran at 59 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 Hardeman County Sheriff's Office at hardemancountysheriff.org/corrections (page title: Corrections | Hardeman County Sheriff's Office), phone (731) 658-3971, 505 South Main Street, Bolivar, TN 38008, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Hardeman County
An arrest in Hardeman County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Hardeman 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/9782343); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-25).
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 Hardeman 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 Hardeman County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (731) 658-3971.
- An arrest in Bolivar, Whiteville, Middleton, Grand Junction, Toone or Hickory Valley: 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 Hardeman County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782343.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Hardeman County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the nine cities in Hardeman County: Bolivar, Whiteville, Middleton, Grand Junction, Toone and Hickory Valley. Hornsby, Saulsbury and Silerton 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 Hardeman County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hardeman County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Bolivar (5,084)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hardeman County each year?
Hickory Valley reported 1,188 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Hardeman County sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 2,197 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hardeman County?
Ask the Hardeman County Sheriff's Office at (731) 658-3971; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at hardemancountysheriff.org/corrections.
Where are people arrested in Hardeman County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hardeman County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hardeman 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 Hardeman County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hardeman 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 Hardeman 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.