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 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Texarkana, Texas, in Bowie County, has about 36,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Texarkana comes from a judge of the Bowie 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.
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Who Issues Warrants in Texarkana
In Texas an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Texarkana that means the Bowie 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.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at co.bowie.tx.us/page/bowie.county.court (page title: Bowie County Court at Law), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser. That page belongs to a lower court, the County Courts and Justice Courts, not to the Bowie County District Court.
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 Texarkana
The Bowie County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Texarkana (filed by the FBI as Texarkana Police Department) serve warrants in and around Texarkana.
The FBI's agency list also places 14 other agencies and two campus police departments in Bowie County (the arrest records guide names each one); each serves warrants on its own ground.
The agency that serves a warrant from Bowie County is whichever one finds the person; a Texas warrant is valid across Texas.
Together, the seven agencies in Bowie County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,796 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Texarkana arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Texarkana 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 Bowie County Sheriff's Office, held about 520 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 co.bowie.tx.us/page/bowie.Sheriff. The Texarkana inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Texarkana on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Texarkana
The one Bowie County page SearchSystems verified, the records request page, is not a list of open warrants.
Clearing a Warrant from Texarkana
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Texarkana that means appearing before the Bowie 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 Bowie County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who serves warrants in Texarkana?
The agency that reports for Texarkana inside the city and the Bowie 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 Texarkana held?
At the county jail, run by the Bowie County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Texarkana 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 Texarkana 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.