Find Caruthersville Recent Arrests

How Caruthersville Arrest Records Move

Caruthersville sits as the Pemiscot County seat. The 2020 Census place count put its population at 5,562. Two offices split the paperwork when someone is arrested here. City officers write the police reports, while the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office runs the jail side through its Warrants and Records divisions. One arrest can touch both. The city keeps the incident report. The county may hold the booking sheet, the custody entry, a release record, or the jail photograph.

Reported incidents point to that route. KAIT covered four people arrested after New Year's-morning events in Caruthersville, all taken to the Pemiscot County Jail while charges were pending. KFVS described a person arrested after a Caruthersville pursuit, then booked into the Pemiscot County Justice Center on a 24-hour hold. Those are specific events, not a rule. They still make one thing clear. Check both agencies for a Caruthersville arrest, because not every booking ends at the county facility.

Where Caruthersville Recent Arrests Appear

The city publishes no Caruthersville Police arrest roster or daily booking page. Pemiscot County lists no official public jail roster either. So picking the right source matters more than casting a wide net. Start with whichever agency made the arrest. Use every other source for one question only. Ask it the question it can answer.

Note: A missing online result can reflect agency scope, filing lag, release, restricted material, name variation, or no web publication.

Find a Caruthersville Arrest and Booking

A good lookup traces the record from street to custody to court. Skip commercial county-name pages that promise a full list. The Pemiscot County recent-arrests guide walks through the county source system in more depth. It also covers the limits on booking photos there.

1. Identify the arresting agency. Check the report, citation, news account, or family information for Caruthersville Police, the sheriff, MSHP, or another agency.
2. Contact Caruthersville Police for its event record. Ask whether an arrest report, incident report, or related existing record is held by the city.
3. Check county custody separately. Call the Pemiscot County Sheriff at 573-333-4101 and ask whether the person is now held at the jail or Justice Center.
4. Use MSHP only when it fits. Select Pemiscot County and the arrest date. The search excludes arrests made by other agencies and keeps results online for five days.
5. Test custody notification and court sources. Search Missouri in VINELink, then use Case.net for a filed criminal case. Allow for data and filing lag.
6. Request the record. Send a focused written request to the agency that created the record when the web paths do not answer the question.

These checks separate a fresh arrest from later stages. A person may be booked, released, or transferred. They may instead be placed under state supervision by the Missouri Department of Corrections. Release ends custody, but the arrest report stays with its custodian. A DOC search tracks active state supervision, not a new Caruthersville booking.

Caruthersville Police Arrest Records

Caruthersville City Hall publishes two police contact numbers, and neither is clearly a records line. The offices page names Chief Jerry D. Hudgens Sr. at 1400 A Ward Avenue, reachable at 573-333-2121. It also lists a fax, 573-333-0227, plus jhudgens@caruthersvillepd.com. The city directory shows a second number, 573-333-0216. Call before you write. Ask which office handles arrest reports and booking records before sending anything.

The page helps you reach Caruthersville police. It holds no arrest list or custody information itself.

Put your request in writing. Include the full name, the date range, the arresting agency if you know it, and the exact item you want, whether that is an arrest report, an incident report, or a log entry. Booking photos and jail records held at the county level go through the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Warrants and Records path instead. Missouri's Attorney General favors written requests. No special form exists. State law expects a response within three business days, either by providing records, denying the request, or explaining a delay with an estimated answer date.

Caruthersville Arrests at the Justice Center

Does Caruthersville hold its own arrestees? Not usually. Two regional news stories show the same pattern. People arrested in Caruthersville end up at the county lockup. KAIT described suspects taken to the county jail while charges were pending. A KFVS pursuit report went further. It named the Justice Center as the booking destination. The arrest began with a 24-hour hold at the start. Neither story proves every arrest follows that route; each covers one incident on one date. The KFVS Caruthersville pursuit report is preserved in this source capture.

One report is not a system. So what should you check? The capture shows a single booking path. It is not a live roster or a fixed rule for city arrests. If the city confirms an arrest but Pemiscot County shows no custody, the person may have been released or transferred. They may be held somewhere else, or never booked at the county level at all. When the county does confirm custody, a new question comes up. Which agency owns the arrest report? Keeping those two records apart prevents easy mistakes. It stops you from treating the jail as the arresting agency. It also stops you from treating the city file as proof of who is in custody right now.

Police Activity Is Not an Arrest Total

Caruthersville's meeting minutes offer rare local numbers. The December 2024 record counted roughly 8,500 calls and 1,519 incident reports for the year. Crashes were excluded. Arrests included 242 fugitive arrests. The same report listed 27 weapon offenses, 73 assaults, and 81 domestic-violence incidents. A May 2025 packet added 397 calls for service. It processed 68 reports in its period.

Treat the fugitive-arrest number as an activity figure from city minutes. It is not a mugshot tally. When you need a named person or a set date range, request the record itself and check the court disposition that follows.

Note: City activity reports add context, but only a sourced booking record can establish intake at a particular facility.

Caruthersville Arrest News and Photos

KFVS and KAIT both cover Caruthersville arrest stories. Each picks the incidents it finds newsworthy. A typical article names the arresting agency, lists charges, notes a hold, or runs an agency photo. Some images carry a VINELink credit instead. These are newsrooms, though, not booking logs. Nothing there adds up to a full daily arrest roster for Caruthersville, so treat the coverage as a sample of Pemiscot County police activity rather than a complete record. Keep two timing points in mind. The date on the story is the publication date, not the arrest date. And a photo in one article is just that newspaper's image, not a city mugshot gallery.

Neither the Caruthersville nor the Pemiscot County website posts a booking-photo feed. Missouri law lets law enforcement send arrest details and photographs to the state repository, but the law does not force any office to display them online. Want an existing image? Ask the record custodian directly. Commercial sites that show Caruthersville arrest photos can be stale, incomplete, or misidentified, and they rarely update after a case moves through court.

Case.net works best for tracking a filed case, not for confirming who is in custody right now. A missing case may just mean the paperwork has not caught up. Once it appears, the docket shows the disposition, which beats guessing from the first charge. For older Caruthersville records, city and sheriff files plus state retention schedules serve you better than the MSHP page, which drops its public results after five days.

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