Weakley County Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Weakley County

The Weakley County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Weakley County. It reported 983 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside five 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:

• Martin, 10,989 residents: 422 arrests reported for 2024.
• Dresden, 2,930 residents: 119 arrests reported for 2025.
• Greenfield, 2,017 residents: 35 arrests reported for 2025.
• Gleason, 1,363 residents: 143 arrests reported for 2022.
• Sharon, 914 residents: 31 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 McKenzie Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Weakley County, so its arrests are not broken out for Weakley County here.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Weakley County: the University of Tennessee at Martin (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Weakley 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.

• Weakley County Sheriff's Office: 983 for 2025, 1,138 for 2024, 1,173 for 2023, 934 for 2022, 813 for 2021 and 1,473 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
• Dresden: 119 for 2025, 199 for 2024, 128 for 2023, 119 for 2022, 129 for 2020 and 134 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• Greenfield: 35 for 2025, 61 for 2024, 45 for 2023, 79 for 2022, 77 for 2020 and 104 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• Sharon: 31 for 2025, 12 for 2020 and 26 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
• Martin: 422 for 2024, 473 for 2023, 332 for 2022, 245 for 2021, 306 for 2020 and 474 for 2019.
• Gleason: 143 for 2022, 82 for 2020 and 68 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,168 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,137 in 2025 against 1,398 in 2024, down 19 percent.

Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 657 arrests, against 814 in the same months of 2025.

Gleason and Martin reported only part of 2025 (10 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Weakley County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Weakley 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 94 people, up from about 89 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 129 beds, and it ran at 73 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 Weakley County Sheriff's Office at weakleycountytn.gov/sheriffdept.html (page title: Weakley County Sheriff's Department), phone (731) 364-5454, 7951 Highway 22 Dresden, TN 38225, 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 Weakley County

For Weakley County the place to look is the case index of the Weakley County Circuit and Chancery Courts, kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.

The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at weakleycountytn.gov/circuit-court.html (page title: Weakley County Circuit Court and General Sessions), phone 731-364-3455, belongs to a lower court, not to the Weakley County Circuit and Chancery Courts.

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 Weakley 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 Weakley County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (731) 364-5454.
• An arrest in Martin, Dresden, Greenfield, Gleason or Sharon: 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 University of Tennessee at Martin: the records office of the agency involved.
• The court file of a case that was filed: in the Weakley County Circuit and Chancery Courts it is kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at weakleycountytn.gov/circuit-court.html, phone 731-364-3455, is a lower court's.
• Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

Cities in Weakley County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the five cities in Weakley County: Martin, Dresden, Greenfield, Gleason and Sharon.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Weakley County Circuit and Chancery Courts.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Weakley County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

• Martin (10,989)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Weakley County each year?

The Weakley County Sheriff's Office reported 983 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,168 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Weakley County?

Ask the Weakley County Sheriff's Office at (731) 364-5454; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at weakleycountytn.gov/sheriffdept.html.

Where are people arrested in Weakley County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Weakley County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Weakley 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 Weakley County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Weakley 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 Weakley 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.