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 4, 2026.
Warren County, Tennessee, has about 44,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Warren County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one other 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 Warren 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: Warren County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Warren County
The Warren County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Warren County. It reported 1,536 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Warren County with a reporting agency of its own:
- McMinnville, 14,032 residents: 618 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 Warren County: Drug Task Force's 31st Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Warren 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.
- Warren County Sheriff's Office: 1,536 for 2025, 1,770 for 2024, 1,781 for 2023, 1,794 for 2022, 1,805 for 2021 and 1,551 for 2020.
- McMinnville: 618 for 2025, 550 for 2024, 618 for 2023, 643 for 2022, 761 for 2021 and 739 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,154 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,154 in 2025 against 2,320 in 2024, down 7.2 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,377 arrests, against 1,499 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Warren County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Warren 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 260 people, down from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 251 beds, and it ran at 103 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 Warren County Sheriff's Office at warrencountytn.gov/government/sheriff_s_department/index.php (page title: Warrren County, TN), phone 931.473.7863, 108 Security Circle McMinnville, TN 37110, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Warren County
For Warren County the place to look is the case index of the Warren County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at warrencountytn.gov/government/courts/index.php).
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 Warren 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 Warren County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 931.473.7863.
- An arrest in McMinnville: 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 Drug Task Force's 31st Judicial District: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Warren County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at warrencountytn.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Warren County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Warren County: McMinnville. Morrison, Centertown and Viola 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 Warren County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Warren County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- McMinnville (14,032)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Warren County each year?
The Warren County Sheriff's Office reported 1,536 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,154 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Warren County?
Ask the Warren County Sheriff's Office at 931.473.7863; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at warrencountytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in Warren County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Warren County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Warren 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 Warren County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Warren 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 Warren 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.