Mississippi Warrant Information

A warrant is an official document issued by a judge or a special magistrate ordering the law enforcement officials to arrest and detain a person or persons that are the subjects/s of the warrant.  It is usually issued in the county where the crime was committed. It can be affected by factors such as the record of the criminal history of an individual and the nature of the crime that was committed.

The record of any outstanding warrants and the arrest warrants generally remain in the state or the federal database indefinitely unless the warrant is dropped due to the unavailability of information or substantial evidence regarding a criminal case.

Types of Warrants in Mississippi

The types of Mississippi warrants include search warrants, arrest warrants, outstanding warrants and the bench warrants.

The search warrants are issued and signed by a judge in the Mississippi State that gives permission to the police officers to search a person, place, object, substance, material and such when there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed.

A Mississippi arrest warrant is a court order directing the law enforcement officers to arrest the individual who is the subject of the warrant. Once a Mississippi arrest warrant is issued, the police have the legal right to arrest and subsequently bring the accused into custody.

An outstanding warrants are those which are pending against an individual. These may be for traffic violations, citations, DUI offenses, misdemeanors or for serious felony offenses.

A bench warrant on the other hand is issued when a person fails to appear in a court of law. When a bench warrant is issued against a person, the police officers have the legal right to not only arrest the subject of the warrant but also force the person to appear in court.

Searching for Mississippi Warrants

In the state of Mississippi individuals can search and access their own criminal history records to check for any citations or outstanding warrants that are registered against them. Individuals can also check for any outstanding warrants that are issued against other individuals from various official sources.

To search and access their own records individuals can either visit in person or use the official websites maintained by most of the local county Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi State. Individuals can also visit the office of the Clerk of the County Courts who maintain all the court records.

You should be cautious while you search for any outstanding warrants against you form a courthouse because if you discover that there is an outstanding warrant against you the court can immediately order to take you into custody.

A list of the contact address of the office of the various county clerks’ court can be found from: http://01f3e4a.netsolhost.com/countyofficeindex/http://www.peoplepublicrecords.org/countyclerk.html

You can also search for the wanted persons and the most wanted persons that are wanted for arrest from the state, county as well as the federal agencies from:http://www.dps.state.ms.us/dps/dps.nsf/webwanted?OpenForm&Div=All

The list of most wanted persons include details of the crime, identifying characteristics as well as an accompanying photograph of the individual.

You can also retrieve information about the Mississippi warrants from the Division of Records of the Mississippi Department of Corrections:http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/Records%20Division.htm . In accordance to the rules and regulations of the National Crime Information Center, the Records Department keeps a record and also checks for the warrants on the escaped ERS, escaped inmates, parole violators, absconding probationers as well as those offenders placed under house arrests.