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.
Cumberland County, Virginia, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office and one state 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 Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Cumberland Circuit Court. 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Cumberland County public records, Virginia arrest records, Virginia inmate search and Virginia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cumberland County
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cumberland County. It reported 122 arrests for 2025.
The Farmville Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Cumberland County, so its arrests are not broken out for Cumberland County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Cumberland County: the Cumberland County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: 122 for 2025, 90 for 2024, 138 for 2023, 103 for 2022, 128 for 2021 and 149 for 2020.
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office's 122 arrests in 2025 were up 36 percent from 90 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Cumberland County Sheriff's Office reported 99 arrests, against 61 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cumberland County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cumberland 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 43 people, down from about 45 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 28 beds, and it ran at 115 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office at inmates.cumberlandcounty.revize.com/bookings (page title: Inmate Locator | Cumberland_County_ME_Inmates_App), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Virginia Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at vadoc.virginia.gov/family-and-friends.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cumberland County
An arrest in Cumberland County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Cumberland Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcounty.virginia.gov/m/directory/department?did=13, phone 804-492-4442); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cumberlandcounty.virginia.gov/163/Commonwealths-Attorney, phone 804-492-4018).
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 Cumberland County
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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by the Cumberland County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Commonwealth's Attorney, 804-492-4018, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cumberland Circuit Court, through the court records page at cumberlandcounty.virginia.gov, phone 804-492-4442.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcounty.virginia.gov (page title: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests | Cumberland County, VA).
- Your own statewide record: a request to the State Police Central Criminal Records Exchange; a check on someone else needs their signed consent.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cumberland County each year?
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office reported 122 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Cumberland County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cumberland County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Cumberland 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 Cumberland County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 working days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcounty.virginia.gov.
Is this the official Cumberland 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.