Perry Busted Mugshots
Every booking in Perry County starts the same way. An arresting agency brings someone to the jail or another approved custody point. From there a record takes shape. It can list the agency that made the arrest, the date and time of booking, the charges as written down, bond or hold details, and any public release information. The official sheriff page names Sheriff Jacob Garner and Chief Deputy Van Giadrosich, but it offers no searchable roster, no booking table, and no photo policy.
So how do you reach the record? You go through a direct, date-specific request. The jail sits in New Augusta. For records, though, mail the Sheriff's Department at P.O. Box 228, New Augusta, MS 39462, or call 601-964-8461. That state-directory contact is the safer route for paperwork.
Perry Booking Record Fields
Perry County publishes no field list for a live roster. You can still request the public pieces of a booking record. One distinction matters a lot here. The agency that books someone is not always the agency that arrested them. A Richton, Beaumont, or New Augusta officer may make the arrest, while Perry County Jail keeps the booking paperwork. Keep charges separate from outcomes, too.
When you write to the sheriff, ask which fields exist, which are exempt, and how any booking image is classified. A narrow request gets clearer answers than a broad one.
| Requested field | Why it helps |
|---|---|
| Full name and booking date/time | Helps distinguish a namesake and defines the requested record. |
| Booking number, if public | Gives the jail's reference for follow-up. |
| Arresting and booking agencies | Separates the officer or department from the custody location. |
| Charge or statute as recorded | Captures the charge at booking, not a court outcome. |
| Bond, hold, and release fields, if public | Shows custody status only as reported at the time of response. |
| Associated booking photo | Lets the agency state whether a public image exists or is restricted. |
- Booking
- Jail intake that records a custody event and identification details.
- Bond
- A court-set condition that may allow release before the case is finished.
- Disposition
- The court's recorded outcome, such as dismissal, plea, acquittal, or sentence.
Busted Perry Booking Requests
Mississippi's Public Records Act explanation treats photographs and documentary materials as public records, with exemptions for certain law-enforcement files. The state summary allows seven working days for a response. The window shrinks when an agency has no adopted procedure. Perry County posts no photo fee schedule and no request form. So ask for a cost estimate up front instead of guessing at fees or timelines.
Send the written request to the sheriff's department at the state-directory mailing address. Then call 601-964-8461 to confirm delivery and the right custodian. Give a tight date range. It maps cleanly onto a jail docket. Leave out medical material, juvenile material, Social Security numbers, and investigative narratives. If something gets withheld, request the specific legal basis.
- State the person’s full name and the exact Perry County booking date range you need.
- Request the public booking log fields, including booking time, arresting agency, charge as recorded, and release date if public.
- Ask whether a booking photograph exists, whether it is public, and what access method applies.
- Request a fee estimate and the expected response date, then retain the request and reply.
Note: The sheriff's contact route checks out, but no public Perry County online roster or booking-photo policy could be confirmed.
Perry Busted Mugshot Law
Mississippi treats access and republication as two separate issues. The state's records law lets you request booking photos and arrest paperwork. An agency can still claim an exemption or blank out certain fields. No enacted state law forces a blanket takedown of booking photos. Nothing bans charging for removal either. Bills that never passed are not rights, so treat any promise of automatic erasure with suspicion.
Need a record corrected, sealed, or expunged? Start with the source. The Perry County Circuit Clerk handles felony cases plus appeals from Justice Court. Lower-level matters fall to Justice Court or a municipal court. Mississippi Courts publishes its own guidance on court information and expungement. Eligibility turns on the facts of each case. A clerk or a Mississippi attorney is the right person to answer filing questions.
A few mugshot publishers offer free correction or removal when you supply paperwork. The Busted Newspaper policy and the RecentlyBooked policy are just publisher procedures. They are not court orders and carry no guarantee. Get the disposition or correction first, then use the publisher's free channel if one fits. Steer clear of middlemen who demand payment for outcomes they cannot deliver.
Perry Busted Mugshot Lookup
Start any Perry County lookup with the sheriff. No official online roster or same-day booking feed exists for this county. A news story or an unofficial index can hand you a name spelling, a date, or an agency label, but treat those details as leads only. Confirm them officially. If someone no longer shows in county custody, that fact alone proves nothing about release, dismissal, or transfer. Pull the booking record, then follow the court path for what came next.
Match each search channel to its actual scope. Perry County Jail covers local bookings. The Mississippi Department of Corrections covers state custody. Federal and immigration locators cover their own systems. Keeping these paths separate stops a shared name or an old photo from sticking to the wrong Perry County event.
- Confirm the person, date, and arresting agency with Perry County Sheriff’s Department.
- Send a narrow public-records request if the official contact cannot direct you to a public listing.
- Ask the relevant court clerk for the case number and disposition rather than relying on a booking charge.
- Check state or federal custody tools only when the person may have moved into that separate system.
No Official Perry Roster
Perry County, Mississippi has no online roster. The sheriff's page offers no inmate search, no booking-number lookup, and no gallery of booking photos. That absence tempts people toward lookalike portals. Don't take the bait. Search results for a Perry County in Tennessee and one in Ohio belong to entirely different agencies, and neither has anything to do with New Augusta.
A written request works better than a commercial directory when no official portal exists. Keep it narrow. Name a specific booking, a short date range, or the jail docket itself rather than asking for every person ever booked there. The sheriff's office can also tell you whether a public counter or records procedure has changed.
Custody status matters too. Someone released from jail may vanish from a live list even though the booking record still exists. A person arrested but never booked may show up nowhere. That is why agency, date, and custody state belong in every Perry County record request.
Busted Perry Booking Feeds
No official Perry County booking feed exists for same-day or multi-day updates. The Richton Dispatch, though, has published Perry County Jail Docket stories covering set periods. One July 2025 report spanned several days. Treat those as leads. They are dated news summaries, not a live roster, and they may leave out photos or final court results.
Third-party sites follow their own clocks. RecentlyBooked says its Perry page refreshes several times a day and shows a recent window. Busted Newspaper's Perry page shifts its entries and paginates them. Neither is official. Both may delay, copy, omit, or hang onto entries, and their time labels are no substitute for an answer straight from the jail.
For the long view, Mississippi DPS publishes annual statewide arrest abstracts. Those help with aggregate research, not with same-day Perry bookings or public booking photos. When comparing sources, keep publication date, booking date, and the date you viewed a page separate.
Perry Busted Jail Docket
No website listing does not mean a record was destroyed. Mississippi's county retention schedule treats the jail docket as a permanent series. It covers who was received, the commitment date, the warrant or writ, the offense, and the discharge date. Arrest reports, dispatch logs, and inmate case files each carry different retention periods. The schedule names no separate booking-photo image series for Perry County.
That gap matters for older requests. Ask the sheriff directly whether a photo sits with an arrest report, an inmate case file, a jail-docket support record, or some other series. For older county holdings, the Perry County MDAH finding aid can point toward historical government and court records, though it does not promise any booking image has been digitized.
MDAH's own local-government guidance says retention follows local schedules and approved disposal procedures. So ask the county whether a record stayed put, was transferred, was microfilmed, or was disposed of properly.
MDOC Inmate Photos
Mississippi's MDOC inmate search accepts a name or an MDOC ID. A detail page can show a state-custody photo, location, sentence information, offenses, county of conviction, and a tentative release date. Remember the boundary. That is a state record, not a Perry County Jail roster. A county arrest may never reach MDOC custody, and a result there could involve another county or an older case.
Use MDOC once the custody line is clear. Match the person carefully. Confirm the county of conviction and the sentence date. If the county booking record is what you need, request it from the county on its own. MDOC takes written public-records requests for anything its search does not show and will not accept them by phone. MDOC's official search entry leads to the state-custody search interface.
The state search helps once a person has entered the corrections system, but it cannot confirm a current Perry County booking or produce an unverified county photo.
Perry Custody Record States
Records shift between systems as a case moves along. Someone booked recently may appear in a Perry County jail record. After release, that person can drop off a current custody listing even though the booking record remains available on request. A sentenced prisoner may land in MDOC instead. Federal or immigration custody calls for a separate official check, and neither system alone proves a Perry County booking without records that actually match.
| Status being checked | Best documented Perry County route |
|---|---|
| Recent county booking | Sheriff contact and a date-bounded Perry County Jail request. |
| Released county booking | Ask the sheriff for the public booking record and release field, if public. |
| Sentenced state custody | Use MDOC search, then confirm the county of conviction and sentence details. |
| Federal custody | Use the official BOP inmate locator; it is not a county booking source. |
| ICE custody or recent release | Use the official ICE locator; it has its own search limits and no general public photo field. |
Perry Court Record Follow-up
Booking starts a paper trail, but the courthouse carries it forward. For felony cases and Justice Court appeals in Perry County, the person to call is Circuit Clerk Christy Mayo. Her office sits at 103 Main Street, P.O. Box 198, New Augusta, MS 39462. Reach the office at 601-964-3398 or by email at circuitclerk@co.perry.ms.us. The state directory lists Justice Court Clerk Teresa Watford at 601-964-8366, and municipal court matters go through a separate city contact.
When you call, ask which court holds the case and request the case number. An arraignment is the stage where a judge formally takes up the charge. What started as a booking charge can shift as the case moves, so follow the docket rather than a news story or third-party index. For help finding your way around Mississippi's courts, the Mississippi Courts link earlier on this page is the place to start.
Note: A clerk can trace a case and its recorded outcome, while the sheriff's office remains the starting point for the underlying Perry County booking record.
Perry Busted Arrest Statistics
Numbers tell a different story than a daily booking feed does. WDAM published a July 2024 report built on figures the sheriff shared through Facebook. It counted 157 arrests by Perry County deputies between January 1 and July 1 of that year. The breakdown included 59 felony arrests and 70 tied to drugs. Deputies also logged 3,760 encounters and answered 8,030 dispatch calls in the same window.
Context is all these figures offer. They do not name every person booked, and they are not a live county roster. The sheriff's own page posts no public data table, so treat a statistic as background rather than a searchable list of current inmates. The dated WDAM report is the full source behind these numbers.
That is exactly why a period statistic belongs next to a records request, never instead of it. Aggregates describe workload, not the public booking record itself.
Perry Digital Source Checks
A shared name can mislead you fast. Perry County exists in more than one state. A sheriff app result pointing to Linden, Tennessee, or a portal tied to a different Perry County has nothing to do with Mississippi. Before trusting any online tool or social account, check the state, the New Augusta location, the agency name, and whether a 601 phone number backs it up.
No verified sheriff app turned up for Perry County, Mississippi. WDAM drew its 2024 figures from a sheriff Facebook presence, yet no stable official profile URL exists. Social posts can be trimmed, edited, or deleted at will. A post might announce one event, but it is no substitute for the county's custody system or booking-photo policy.
Busted Youth Record Boundary
Mississippi shields juvenile records from ordinary adult booking practices. Under Mississippi Code §43-21-255, law-enforcement and youth-court records involving children stay protected except in narrow circumstances. A name match, an old photo, or a third-party listing never proves a juvenile record is fair game. When age or court status is unclear, leave the material out and ask the clerk or agency where the legal line sits.
Adult records deserve the same restraint. Request only the public booking fields you need to identify the event. Medical details, immigration status, and identity questions have no business being guessed from an unofficial page. The county and the courts hold the authoritative answers.
Busted Mugshots by City
Perry County's towns each keep their own police contacts. Bookings all end up in the same place, though. Anyone arrested anywhere in the county lands in Perry County Jail, and the record follows a single county route. The incorporated places are Richton, Beaumont, and New Augusta, listed here by 2020 Census ordering. A city officer may make the bust. The sheriff's office still holds the booking record. Each city page below sorts out that split for local contacts, reporting patterns, and records requests.
- Richton Busted Mugshots: 920 residents in the 2020 Census, with periodic local docket coverage rather than a verified city roster.
- Beaumont Busted Mugshots: 669 residents, with an official police contact but no verified public arrest log.
- New Augusta Busted Mugshots: 554 residents and the county seat, where the sheriff and court follow-up offices are centered.
Population figures come from the Census incorporated-place table. For media coverage involving Perry County faces, see Mugshots in the News; for limits on verifying county warrants, see Sheriff's Most Wanted.