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 9, 2026.
Marshall County, Tennessee, has about 38,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Marshall County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and two campus, state or other 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 Marshall 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: Marshall County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Marshall County
The Marshall County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Marshall County. It reported 630 arrests for 2025.
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:
- Lewisburg, 13,473 residents: 621 arrests reported for 2025.
- Chapel Hill, 1,897 residents: 58 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cornersville, 1,362 residents: 24 arrests reported for 2022.
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 these agencies in Marshall County: the State Park Rangers's Chief Rangers Office (state agency); Drug Task Force's 17th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Marshall 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.
- Marshall County Sheriff's Office: 630 for 2025, 624 for 2024, 597 for 2023, 620 for 2022, 590 for 2021 and 504 for 2020.
- Lewisburg: 621 for 2025, 634 for 2024, 425 for 2023, 397 for 2022, 349 for 2021 and 527 for 2020.
- Chapel Hill: 58 for 2025, 41 for 2024, 64 for 2023, 45 for 2022, 42 for 2021 and 63 for 2020.
- Cornersville: 24 for 2022, 7 for 2020 and 12 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,309 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,309 in 2025 against 1,299 in 2024, up 0.8 percent.
Through September 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 866 arrests, against 973 in the same months of 2025.
Cornersville reported only part of 2025 (6 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Marshall County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Marshall 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 120 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 283 beds, and it ran at 41 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 Marshall County Sheriff's Office at sheriffmarshallcounty.org/current-inmate-roster (page title: Private Site), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 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 Marshall County
Whether someone was arrested in Marshall County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Marshall County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Marshall 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/9782370); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-17).
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 Marshall 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 Marshall County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Lewisburg, Chapel Hill or Cornersville: 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 State Park Rangers's Chief Rangers Office or Drug Task Force's 17th Judicial District: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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 Marshall County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782370.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Marshall County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Marshall County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Marshall County: Lewisburg, Chapel Hill and Cornersville.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Marshall County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Marshall County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lewisburg (13,473)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Marshall County each year?
The Marshall County Sheriff's Office reported 630 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,309 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Marshall County?
Look on the custody page of the Marshall County Sheriff's Office at sheriffmarshallcounty.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Marshall County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Marshall County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Marshall 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 Marshall County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Marshall 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 Marshall 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.