Drew County Arrest History
An arrest in Drew County can begin with the Drew County Sheriff's Office, Monticello Police Department, University of Arkansas at Monticello Police Department, Arkansas State Police, or another agency with jurisdiction. The arrest report belongs to the arresting agency. The booking record belongs to the Drew County Detention Center if the person is taken there. The filed court case belongs to Circuit Court or the 28th State District Court. The state repository record belongs to ACIC and Arkansas State Police.
That split is why an arrest lookup should not stop at one screen. A jail feed can show current custody and charge descriptions, but it may not show final disposition. A court case can show the legal outcome but may lag after booking. ARCH can show certain Arkansas criminal history results, but it omits dismissed arrests, unresolved misdemeanors, traffic history, active warrants, and sealed records.
Drew Sheriff's Inmate Feed
The Drew County Sheriff's OCV manifest exposes an inmate feed under Jail Information. The current feed is configured as a feedList with search and sort enabled, a date-descending default, and public current inmate cards. The feed fields include booking date, gender, race, age, height, weight, hair color, local inmate ID, charges, and image URLs when available. This page describes the fields and does not republish names, inmate IDs, or photos.
The Drew County sheriff roster webview is the legacy or webview roster path linked by sheriff sources.
Use the roster or feed as a custody lead, then confirm the arresting agency or court when the charge text is vague.
The Drew County inmate feed endpoint shows structured current-custody entries.
Because the feed is a jail record, it should not be read as proof of conviction or as a complete court history.
Looking Up Drew County Arrests
The strongest lookup path is channel-complete. Start with the sheriff's jail tools for current custody, then move to the arresting agency, court, repository, and notification tools as needed. If the feed says only "WARRANT" or "HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCY," call the detention facility or sheriff because the underlying court or agency may be outside the public feed text.
- Search the Drew County Sheriff's inmate feed for current custody or recent booking information.
- Call the detention facility at (870) 460-6215 or the sheriff at (870) 367-6211 when the feed lacks release, warrant, hold, or court detail.
- Contact the arresting agency for the arrest report: DCSO for county incidents, MPD for Monticello incidents, or the proper state or campus agency.
- Search Search ARCourts, then call Circuit Clerk for felony filings or 28th State District Court for misdemeanor and traffic matters.
- Use ARCH for state repository history and VINE or Arkansas DOC tools after county custody ends.
Arresting Agencies in Drew County
Arrest records route by agency. A Monticello Police arrest report is not held by the sheriff merely because the person was booked into the county jail. A deputy report belongs to DCSO. A filed case belongs to the court. The table below keeps those access channels separate.
| Agency | Role | Records Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Drew County Sheriff's Office | County law enforcement and jail | 210 South Main St; 870-367-6211; info@drewcountysheriff.com |
| Monticello Police Department | City law enforcement | 101 N. Church St; 870-367-3411 or 870-367-3414 |
| University of Arkansas at Monticello Police | Campus contributor in ACIC stats | Official records contact not located in research |
| Arkansas State Police | State enforcement and CID | Company B Criminal Investigations serves Drew County from Pine Bluff |
| Drew County courts | Filed charges and dispositions | Circuit Clerk or 28th State District Court |
Inside a Drew Arrest Record
A Drew County arrest record may refer to the agency arrest report, the jail booking record, or a state repository entry. The sheriff feed shows booking and custody fields. It does not consistently show arresting agency, court date, release date, judge, pod, tank, bond type, or final disposition. Court records are the better source for the outcome.
| Booking date | Shown in the inmate feed for current custody entries. |
|---|---|
| Arresting agency | May require the agency report or a call if the feed does not show it clearly. |
| Charges | Descriptions appear in the feed; the statute code label may be blank. |
| Physical descriptors | Gender, race, age, height, weight, and hair color can appear. |
| Mugshot/photo | Image URLs may exist in the feed, but this page does not republish arrestee photos. |
| Final disposition | Not a booking-feed field; use court records for the legal outcome. |
Drew Detention Center Booking
The sheriff jail page says all persons arrested and taken into custody are transported to the Drew County Jail and Detention Center for booking and incarceration. The facility is divided into separate male and female housing areas, plus isolation and temporary holding cells. It houses pretrial detainees and post-conviction inmates serving sentences or awaiting transport to Arkansas Department of Corrections.
The Drew sheriff jail page describes the detention center, housing split, and jailer training.
Those details explain why a person may appear in a local booking record before any state prison or court disposition record exists.
Booking Logs and Recent Arrests
Recent arrest research in Drew County should treat the inmate feed as a current custody and booking tool, not a permanent arrest archive. Entries can roll off after release. Charge descriptions can be short. The feed may show "WARRANT" or "HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCY" without the full court or agency context. For the court trail, move to Search ARCourts and the proper clerk.
The Drew County visiting-hours page gives kiosk visitation times and the detention facility phone.
The detention facility phone is a practical fallback when public feed fields do not explain custody status.
What WARRANT Means in the Feed
A charge description that says "WARRANT" does not identify the full warrant source by itself. The issuing court, case number, warrant type, bond, issue date, and served or recalled status may need confirmation from the sheriff or court. Drew County did not publish an official active-warrant search in the captured sources, so do not treat the feed as a warrant database.
Call DCSO for sheriff-held process questions, 28th State District Court for bench warrants tied to missed district court matters, and Circuit Clerk or Circuit Court for felony case warrants or capias records. Search ARCourts may show docket events tied to the warrant.
Submit-a-Tip Is Not Records
The sheriff app includes a submit-a-tip form, but it is not a records request form. The form captures optional name, email, phone, location, time/date of incident, and a required tip narrative. The disclaimer says it provides information about an ongoing investigation and is not for reporting a crime in progress. For a records copy, contact the sheriff, police department, or court custodian instead.
The Drew sheriff submit-a-tip form shows the field inventory and 911 disclaimer.
Use that form only for investigative leads, not for arrest report copies or jail records.
Current Custody Ends
After a person leaves Drew County jail, the public trail can move to a court case, Arkansas DOC, VINE, or a supervision office. Drew County is served by the Arkansas DOC Division of Community Correction Monticello Office at 309 Hwy 425 South. VINE can monitor county jail custody, ADC custody, probationers, parolees, post-release supervision offenders, and court information from prosecuting attorneys' offices.
The Arkansas VINE portal is the public custody, parole/probation, and court notification search channel.
VINE is a notification layer, while the jail feed and court file remain separate records.
Arrests Are Not Convictions
A booking proves that a person was processed into custody. It does not prove guilt. The court record determines whether the charge was dismissed, amended, pleaded, tried, convicted, acquitted, sentenced, or sealed. ARCH may show conviction information or certain open felony arrests, but it omits many arrest outcomes and is not a complete Drew County police or jail archive.
| Arrest Record | Conviction Record |
|---|---|
| Created by arresting agency and jail | Created by the court and reported to repository systems |
| Shows custody, booking, and alleged charges | Shows a guilty finding or plea accepted by court |
| Held by DCSO, MPD, jail, or agency files | Held by court clerk and, if reportable, ACIC/ASP |
| Can end with release, no filing, dismissal, or sealing | Can lead to sentence, appeal, sealing, or repository entry |
Note: An arrest is not proof of guilt, and many bookings never become public conviction records.