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 2, 2026.
New Braunfels, Texas, in Comal County, has about 116,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for New Braunfels comes from a judge of the Comal County District Court or the County Courts and Justice Courts, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: New Braunfels public records, Comal County warrants, New Braunfels arrest records, New Braunfels inmate search, New Braunfels property records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in New Braunfels
In Texas an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For New Braunfels that means the Comal County District Court, which hears felonies, divorces, land title cases and civil cases without a dollar limit; the County Courts and Justice Courts issue their own warrants on the cases before them. A city with a municipal court of its own issues warrants on the tickets and ordinance cases it tries.
A bench warrant follows a missed court date in any of those courts. Whichever kind it is, the warrant is part of the file of the case it was issued in, and the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases keep that file.
Texas has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
Who Serves Warrants in New Braunfels
The Comal County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for New Braunfels (filed by the FBI as New Braunfels Police Department) serve warrants in and around New Braunfels.
The FBI's agency list also places four other agencies in Comal County (the arrest records guide names each one); each serves warrants on its own ground.
The Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department, the Selma Police Department and the Schertz Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Comal County, so their arrests are not broken out for Comal County here.
A warrant issued in Comal County is good anywhere in Texas, so it is served by whichever agency finds the person, in a traffic stop as often as at the door.
Together, the four agencies in Comal County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,412 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in New Braunfels arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from New Braunfels Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Comal County Sheriff's Office, held about 500 people on an average day so far in 2026 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a jail page SearchSystems verified at comalcounty.gov/181/Sheriffs-Office, phone 800-640-8422. The New Braunfels inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in New Braunfels on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in New Braunfels
Not one of the Comal County pages SearchSystems verified (the sheriff's and the records request page) is a list of open warrants, so a check means asking the court or the prosecutor about a case by name.
Clearing a Warrant from New Braunfels
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from New Braunfels that means appearing before the Comal County District Court or the County Courts and Justice Courts, with the case put back on the calendar through the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases.
A missed date in a case before the County Courts and Justice Courts is handled by that court, not by the Comal County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who serves warrants in New Braunfels?
The agency that reports for New Braunfels inside the city and the Comal County Sheriff's Office outside it, or whichever agency finds the person; a Texas warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in New Braunfels held?
At the county jail, run by the Comal County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from New Braunfels cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases.
Is this the official New Braunfels website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.