How to Conduct a Florida Arrest Warrant Search

Are you apprehending an arrest warrant against your name but you are not sure about it? If you go through some search engines, you will be provided links to many a commercial website of public records. But for a serious issue like this, you should go to authorized offices or sites where you will get authentic information.

How to Find Arrest Warrants in Florida

An arrest warrant search can be done on the basis of the county you are living in. For a Florida arrest warrant search, you need to go the site of the sheriff of that particular county. If your county has no site for the sheriff’s office, you need to go there in person to make your search.
To find the sheriff of your county, click on http://www.flsheriffs.org. This site will give you the address of the sheriff’s office as well as the biography of current sheriff. The mailing address of the Florida Sheriff Association is: Florida Sheriffs Association, P.O. Box 12519, Tallahassee, FL 32317 and the phone number is 850-877-2165.

You can get the address page of each county sheriff at http://www.flsheriffs.org/index.cfm/referer/content.contentList/ID/320/. Through these sites you will be able to find if there is any outstanding arrest warrant issued for you. However, a Florida arrest warrant search on juvenile and domestic relation cases are not available in these websites.

In the site of Alachua County Sheriff, you can go to the warrant page at http://www.alachuasheriff.org/most_wanted/. There are different types of warrants like arrest, search and bench warrants. The warrant page will display the list of people having active arrest warrants. If you find the face you are looking for or come across a known face, let the sheriff know about it. You can reach the officials at Alachua County Sheriff's Office, 2621 SE Hawthorne Road, Gainesville FL 32641 or call at 352-367-4000. You can call the warrant division for any inquiry at 352-367-4138.

Searching for Warrants Online

There are 67 counties in Florida. A Florida arrest warrant search can be conducted online because all 67 county sheriff's offices have their own websites where you can look for the arrest warrants against you or anyone else. These sites are updated on a regular basis. As a result, the result you obtained today may not match with the report you had viewed few days ago. This is because in the meantime new entries have been made and some entries might have been removed too.

It is a statutory warning given by all the law enforcement agencies not to approach or encounter any of these offenders if you come across them. Some of these faces are very dangerous and always carry firearms with them. So, it is recommended to call your nearest law enforcement agency or report them to your local sheriff’s office.

You can also call the toll-free number of Crime Stoppers. There are different numbers for different parts of the state. The toll-free number for Southwest Florida is 1-800-780-TIPS or 8477, Northeast Florida is 1-888-277-TIPS, Palm Beach County is 1-888-458-TIPS, Orange County is 1-800-423-TIPS, and many more. To get the list of the numbers for each county, go to http://www.floridacrimestoppers.org/.