Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 September 26, 2026.
Warrenton, Virginia, in Fauquier County, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Fauquier Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Warrenton public records, Fauquier County arrest records, Virginia arrest records and Virginia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Warrenton
The FBI lists Warrenton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Warrenton Police Department. It reported 106 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,016 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Fauquier County: the Fauquier County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Warrenton Reports
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.
- Warrenton: 106 for 2025, 165 for 2024, 212 for 2023, 209 for 2022, 268 for 2021 and 241 for 2020.
Warrenton's 106 arrests in 2025 were down 36 percent from 165 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Warrenton reported 76 arrests, against 51 in the same months of 2025.
Across Fauquier County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,122 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Warrenton Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Warrenton 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 2025 the jail held about 46 people, down from about 230 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 312 beds, and it ran at 67 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Virginia Department of Corrections lists its inmates at vadoc.virginia.gov/family-and-friends.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Warrenton
An arrest in Warrenton can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Fauquier Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at fauquiercounty.gov/how-do-i/view/my-court-case); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at fauquiercounty.gov/government/departments-a-g/commonwealth-s-attorney, phone 540-422-8120).
Statewide, Online Case Information System is the Virginia courts' free statewide case search.
Virginia does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Virginia State Police goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Warrenton
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 working days, and it may charge the actual cost of searching and copying.
- An arrest by the Warrenton police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at warrentonva.gov/216/Records (page title: Records | Warrenton, VA), phone (540) 347-1108, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Commonwealth's Attorney, 540-422-8120, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Fauquier Circuit Court, through the court records page at fauquiercounty.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the State Police Central Criminal Records Exchange; a check on someone else needs their signed consent.
The Fauquier County guide covers every agency in the county: Fauquier County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Warrenton each year?
Warrenton reported 106 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Warrenton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Warrenton?
The court files of criminal cases in the Fauquier Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Virginia State Police is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Warrenton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Warrenton police for its own arrests, the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 working days.
Is this the official Warrenton 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.