New Augusta Busted Booking Route
About 554 people lived in New Augusta at the 2020 Census count, per the Census incorporated-place table. The town is the Perry County seat. The sheriff, jail, Circuit Clerk, Justice Court, and county offices all cluster there. That concentration misleads people. A sheriff's deputy, a city officer, or a state trooper can all end up booked through the same county system. So the county label on a record does not tell you who made the arrest.
Sheriff Jacob Garner heads the Perry County Sheriff's Department, the official booking contact. Perry County Jail is often listed at 103 1st Street in New Augusta. Verify that address by phone before visiting. No city police roster, online booking-photo page, or daily arrest log has been verified for New Augusta. County booking questions go to the sheriff. A city officer's arrest or incident report belongs with whichever city custodian actually holds it.
A booking and an agency report answer different questions. The jail's intake entry shows who came through the door. The arresting agency's report gives the officer's own account of what happened. Someone released may vanish from a current-custody roster entirely. A person moved to state custody lands in a separate system. Check each stage with the office that keeps that piece of the record.
New Augusta Busted Mugshot Sources
Official channels remain the safest path. No online county roster or posted photo policy exists here. The sheriff page gives you a contact point, not a searchable booking database. Mississippi's public-record guidance says photographs and documents can be public records. Agency procedures, fees, and exemptions all apply. Frame a written request as a question: does a booking image exist? Assume nothing was posted online.
| Channel | Status | Appropriate use |
|---|---|---|
| Perry County Sheriff’s Department | Official, no public online roster or feed verified | Ask about a specific public booking record and the image-access procedure. |
| Mississippi Public Records Act guidance | Official statewide resource | Use for request timing, fee-estimate, and exemption questions. |
| Richton Dispatch and WDAM | Local and regional reporting | Find period-based or event reporting, never a complete official roster. |
| Busted Newspaper, RecentlyBooked, and Arrests.org | Unofficial third parties | Use only as a lead to verify with the sheriff or arresting agency. |
Third-party sites carry real risks. Aggregator entries can lag, omit fields, copy from other sites, or simply get a city, date, charge, or photo wrong. Nothing they display counts as official confirmation. No booking-image gallery appears here.
Perry County names cause another headache. Search results mix in similarly named counties and sheriff portals from other states. A Tennessee portal and an Ohio sheriff site both surface alongside Mississippi results, and neither serves Perry County. Check that the source matches New Augusta, the 601 area code, and the official county contact. A matching county name proves nothing on its own. Confirm the state, agency, and phone number before relying on any record route.
New Augusta Busted Booking Lookup
Begin with names and dates you can actually verify, then send each request to the office holding that specific piece. The Perry County booking-record reference rounds out the countywide picture, covering the sheriff, state custody, and records requests.
- Collect the full name, an approximate booking date, and any known arresting agency before making a request.
- Contact Perry County Sheriff’s Department to ask whether Perry County Jail has a responsive public booking record and how it accepts a written request.
- Request the booking date and time, booking number if public, arresting agency, recorded charge or statute, bond or hold field, release date if public, and whether a public booking image exists.
- For a city-officer arrest, confirm the New Augusta Police records custodian and send a separate, date-bounded request for the public arrest log or incident record.
- Ask the court clerk for a case number and disposition. The booking event is not the last word on the case.
The Mississippi Ethics Commission lays out the statutory timing. Agencies generally answer within seven working days. If no procedure has been adopted, the window is one working day. Request a cost estimate before copies get made. If an agency withholds material, ask it to cite the specific exemption. None of this guarantees any particular record or image exists.
Keep everything in one file. That means the written request, the acknowledgement, the cost estimate, the response date, and any follow-up notes. Stay narrow; skip requests for confidential medical details, juvenile files, investigative narratives, or unrelated personal data. If a photo gets denied as exempt, ask for the legal basis and request the non-exempt booking fields instead. A blank search result does not mean no booking occurred. A third-party hit does not mean one did.
New Augusta Court Record Chain
New Augusta's county-seat role splits the picture cleanly. Booking records sit with the sheriff; court follow-up sits with the clerks. The official Perry Circuit Clerk page names Christy Mayo. It lists P.O. Box 198, 103 Main Street, New Augusta, MS 39462, phone 601-964-3398, fax 601-964-8740, and circuitclerk@co.perry.ms.us. Circuit Court takes felony criminal matters along with Justice Court appeals. Once you have a case identified, the Circuit Clerk is where a felony disposition question goes.
The official 2026 state directory lists Justice Court Clerk Teresa Watford at 601-964-8366. Lower-level matters may fall to Justice Court or municipal court. Pin down the right venue before requesting a disposition. The sheriff answers booking questions. The clerk answers court-record questions.
Note: The CourtReference county court listing is a secondary source for municipal-court contacts, offered only as a cross-check rather than an official record source.
A secondary listing can point you toward the right courthouse phone number. Treat its details as a starting point, though. Confirm them with the town or the clerk. A listing alone cannot tell you whether a booking photo exists or how a case ended.
Calling the clerk works best with a full name and, if you have it, the case number. Find out first which court actually holds the matter. Felonies run through the Circuit Clerk. Justice Court or municipal court handles lower-level matters. If nothing turns up, the honest answer is that no disposition could be confirmed through the official channel you checked. That is different from saying a charge was dismissed or proven.
New Augusta Booking Agency Labels
New Augusta is a town and the Perry County seat, not an arresting agency. So a booking record tied to the name could come from several places. The New Augusta Police, the Perry County Sheriff, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, or another department may all appear. Check the listed agency and the jail separately. That habit keeps a city filter on some website from being mistaken for a municipal booking system.
- Arresting agency
- The department or officer that made the arrest or started the recorded action.
- Booking record
- The jail intake record, which can include date, agency, charge, bond, release, and public-access fields.
- Disposition
- The court’s recorded result, separate from the charge listed during arrest or booking.
State-level results work differently. The official Mississippi Department of Corrections, or MDOC, inmate search covers people in state custody. It is not a general New Augusta or Perry County Jail booking search. A shared name alone cannot link the two records.
New Augusta Busted News Sources
New Augusta has no dedicated municipal news or booking feed. The Richton Dispatch sometimes publishes Perry County Jail Docket coverage by time period. WDAM runs occasional regional stories that may mix sheriff, municipal, and state-agency activity. The two outlets report differently. Neither offers a complete, real-time official city roster.
One secondary source deserves a look. A Mississippi Reentry Guide listing lists the New Augusta Police Department at 102 2nd Street East, New Augusta, MS 39462, phone 601-964-8101, with weekday hours. No official town page backs that up. Verify everything before mailing a request or relying on it as current contact information.
Perry County Sheriff’s DepartmentP.O. Box 228
New Augusta, MS 39462
Phone: 601-964-8461
Fax: 601-964-8463
Official statewide directory
A clear letter to the sheriff goes far. Name the person, give a date range, and list any known arresting agency. From there you can request specific fields. Ask for booking date and time, booking number if public, the agency, and the recorded charge or statute. Also ask about any bond or hold, release date if public, and whether a booking image exists. That wording lets the records custodian hand over what the jail holds and withhold what it does not.
A news story or third-party site may say someone was busted in New Augusta. Save the source and the date. Then ask the sheriff or the named agency to verify the record. Court outcomes come only from the right clerk, never from a headline or an arrest listing.
Publication dates and booking dates often differ. Record both whenever possible. The gap matters if your request covers only a certain day or week. It also helps the custodian search the correct period instead of assuming a later report marks the actual booking.