How to Search for a Warrant in Craighead County
Start at the Arkansas CaseInfo portal. Type the full legal name, add a middle name if you have it, or search by case number. Open any likely match. The screen will show the court, case type, filing date, status, and dated docket entries. One warrant entry is just part of a Craighead County case history, and a later recall, appearance, or bond can change what it means.
- Search CaseInfo with accurate participant details or a known case number.
- For a traffic or misdemeanor matter filed through July 31, 2018, check the legacy Craighead ticket archive.
- Identify whether the file belongs to the Jonesboro department, Lake City department, or Circuit Court.
- Call the correct clerk to ask whether the docketed warrant remains outstanding and what procedure follows.
- Use the Sheriff or relevant police contact for service or custody questions that can be disclosed.
You can also request records, though a records request is not a live warrant-status line. Arkansas offers no public statewide warrant lookup. ACIC and NCIC access is restricted, and ARCH excludes active warrants, so Craighead County status must come from the court or sheriff.
Craighead CaseInfo Warrant Search Fields
The public participant screen on CaseInfo offers First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Organization, and Case Description. Those fields find records. They do not prove identity. A common name in Craighead County can pull up several cases, and one misspelled letter can bury the right one. Before trusting a match, compare the court, dates, charge description, and case number.
| Field | Use | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| First name | Starts participant matching | Use the legal spelling |
| Middle name | Narrows common-name results | Add only when known |
| Last name | Main participant filter | Check spelling changes |
| Organization | Finds an organization participant | Not a person-name substitute |
| Case description | Helps distinguish a subject | Read with court and docket |
The official participant-search screen shows the blank public controls and its completeness warning.
The Craighead County search screen walks you through the first fields of a warrant lookup, though it cannot confirm whether process remains active.
Craighead County Warrant Search Fields
Read a case's fields together once it opens. The case number links every event. Filing date tells you when the matter reached the court. Court and case type point you to the right clerk. Docket text might mention an affidavit, an arrest warrant issued, an FTA warrant recalled, or a search warrant returned. Keep in mind that case status and warrant status are not always the same thing in Craighead County.
| Field label | Type | Needed for follow-up | Reading note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Participant name | Text | Yes | Confirm identity with care |
| Case number | Identifier | Best when known | Give it to the clerk |
| Filing date | Date | Helpful | Separates similar cases |
| Court | Department | Yes | Routes the confirmation call |
| Docket event | Event text | Yes | Read issue and recall in order |
Craighead County District Court retention records can also hold citation number, violation date and nature, court date, officers or witnesses, judgment, fine and cost, receipts, payment, and bond-refund data. No single public screen shows all of it.
Craighead County's 2018 Warrant Boundary
The legacy Craighead District Court ticket search covers Western and Eastern traffic and misdemeanor criminal records from September 1994 through July 31, 2018. Its landing page puts the search behind an "AGREE & PROCEED" screen. That 2018 cutoff shapes any Craighead County warrant search. A ticket from before August 2018 may live only in the legacy system, so plan on calling the department clerk. For newer matters, CaseInfo is the stronger public starting point. Neither system promises to show every new, sealed, restricted, or separately held warrant record. A blank result means only that one public index returned no match. The August 2018 line changes where you look for a record, not whether a warrant has legal force.
What a Craighead County Warrant Search Returns
A Craighead County warrant search usually returns a full case page, not a stand-alone warrant card. Records can show the case number, filing date, court, case type, status, participant roles, charge, documents, and a run of docket events. An arrest-warrant case may include an affidavit, warrant issuance, criminal information, first appearance, and bond stage. A search-warrant docket is different. It tracks the affidavit, the warrant, and the return.
| Case number | The court identifier, including separate AW or SW warrant-docket prefixes in the local plan. |
|---|---|
| Court and department | Identifies the clerk who maintains the case. |
| Charge or case type | Describes the filed allegation or proceeding, not proof of guilt. |
| Docket entries | Chronological issuance, return, appearance, recall, bond, or disposition events. |
| Case status | A broad case label that may not answer whether one warrant remains active. |
The official arrest-warrant schema shows those labels in action, with no named roster involved. Its field order helps you follow a Craighead County docket by date.
Craighead Warrant Searches Split by Department
The 19th District Court runs separate Jonesboro and Lake City departments. City courts were folded into this District Court structure in 2012. Jonesboro, Bay, Bono, Brookland, Cash, and Egypt route to the Jonesboro department. Lake City, Caraway, and Monette route to Lake City. A city police department may serve the papers, but the District Court clerk in Craighead County holds the traffic, misdemeanor, ordinance, preliminary-felony, FTA, and warrant docket.
Jonesboro District Court
Chief Clerk Bridgett Clifft
870-933-4508
Lake City District Court
Chief Clerk Linda Holland
870-237-4142
Second Judicial Circuit
Circuit Clerk David Vaughn
870-933-4530
Give the clerk the case number if you have it. Ask whether the warrant is outstanding, whether an appearance or bond is required, and what event recalls it. For felony Circuit Court records, the Circuit Clerk is the route. A Craighead County District Court clerk cannot change Circuit Court process.
Where Craighead County Warrants Are Checked
Nobody publishes a complete public Craighead County warrant list. CaseInfo and the dated legacy ticket archive come first. From there, confirm with the right clerk. If the question is service or custody, call law enforcement. The Craighead County Sheriff's 24-hour non-emergency line is 870-933-4551, and Jonesboro Police lists 870-933-4600 for Warrants. The Sheriff's Most Wanted interface sorts entries by name, date, arrested status, order, and alphabet. Treat it as curated public-safety messaging rather than a full active-warrant database. It carries no update timestamp. An inmate roster, likewise, shows custody only. A name missing from either page proves nothing about an unserved warrant. The working warrant search therefore chains court records, clerk confirmation, and the right service agency rather than any single list.
Craighead Warrant Records by FOIA
When a portal leaves a records question open, the Craighead County submission form can request releasable material. It asks for first and last name, address, phone, an optional fax, email, Arkansas-citizen status, department, the requested information, and a delivery choice. Name the record type. Give the court or office. Add the date range and format you want, and skip broad requests for a private-person roster.
Key point: Arkansas FOIA does not turn sealed, juvenile, ACIC, NCIC, or exempt investigative material into public data.
The Craighead County form lists no fixed fee or response time. The Attorney General's Arkansas FOIA guidance spells out custodian procedure, copying costs, and exemptions. The official request form shows exactly what a requester supplies.
This channel suits slow record requests in Craighead County. It seeks releasable records or policy when an online docket falls short. It never replaces an urgent clerk or attorney call.
Access and Restricted Warrants
Public access has legal and practical limits. Ark. Code ยง9-27-309 gives juvenile records distinct confidentiality protection. A court may seal other material. Active investigative details can be withheld, and ACIC or NCIC criminal-information data stays restricted to authorized users. The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act opens public records while allowing exemptions and the custodian's process, so it never commands release of every law-enforcement record. A Craighead County record can go missing for innocent reasons. It may be new, filed under a different spelling, returned before an ordinary case file opened, or held by another court. A blank public result cannot establish that a warrant does not exist. An unexpected appearance can risk arrest. An Arkansas attorney can contact the Craighead County court and advise a safe next step.
Three limits: Sealed and juvenile records may stay outside public search; ACIC and NCIC are restricted; a blank result is not official clearance.
ARCH Is Not a Craighead Warrant Search
The official ARCH criminal-history search charges $24 per name search. It asks for first and last name, sex, and full date of birth. Its scope covers specified criminal-history categories only. Its results expressly exclude active warrants, so paying for ARCH cannot tell you whether a Craighead County court holds unserved process today. Use CaseInfo for public court filings. Use the proper clerk for live docket confirmation. Use the Sheriff or city police for the service and custody information they can disclose. Each office does a different job: courts issue process, clerks keep judicial records, and law enforcement serves warrants. A criminal-history response and a warrant confirmation differ. Note: No paid or free public statewide Arkansas search replaces the Craighead County clerk and law-enforcement confirmation chain.