Browse Perry County Police Blotter

Curious about who was arrested in Perry County over the past few days? The Perry County police blotter pulls from a wider window than a single day. It starts with the county jail's multi-day booking query, then widens to city police reports and local news coverage. That reach helps after a weekend gap, an overnight delay, or a missed check. One source shows who is in custody at the jail. Others cover Marion police activity or report on a specific arrest case. It is a rolling view rather than a complete archive, so older entries drop away as new bookings come in.

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Perry County Multi-Day Arrest Log

Start with the iSOMS Current Inmates Last 72 Hours view, the sheriff's official multi-day arrest log for the Perry County jail. A single page holds everything. Each entry lists intake time, the arresting agency and officer, charges, bond, a release field, and a booking photo when the system supplies one. Because the query spans three days of intake records, it works well when you don't know which day a booking happened.

This 72-hour screen is not a weekly PDF. It publishes no update schedule, no holiday rule, and no permanent archive. Expect sheriff bookings, municipal arrests routed into county intake, holds, capias matters, and entries from other agencies. It cannot capture every police event in Perry County. A city citation or arrest that never reaches the county jail may not show up here at all.

Weekend check: The longer window adds time coverage, but Perry County does not promise uninterrupted posting or a fixed holiday update schedule.

The official 72-hour query visually separates this multi-day view from the current roster.

Perry County police blotter official 72-hour iSOMS arrest records

This capture shows the live interface, whose entries change as the rolling window moves.


Read Perry County Blotter Entries

Read entries backward from the newest intake time. That order is not a full chronology, though. Intake can happen hours after the arrest itself. Someone transferred into Perry County custody may carry an event date that differs from the local booking time. Names need care too. Two people can share a name or a spelling, so look for a second identifier before assuming a match.

  1. Open the 72-hour view and note the intake date and time.
  2. Compare the full name, age, city, race/sex, and image when available.
  3. Read the department and officer fields to identify the arresting agency.
  4. Review each charge and bond row as preliminary booking data.
  5. Check the release field before describing anyone as currently jailed.
  6. Use the current roster or a records request after an entry rolls outside the window.

Only the newest bookings matter to you? Use the Perry County Arrests Last 24 Hours page. The two screens answer different time questions, one narrow and one wide. Neither is a court judgment, and neither works as a criminal-history archive.


Perry Arrest Log Fields

An iSOMS entry packs a lot into one record: identity details, intake time, agency, custody status, and charges. A booking photo appears when the system supplies one. The sheriff promises no photo for every entry. Watch the release field closely. Because the multi-day query reaches back three days, a person listed there may already have a changed custody status.

Entry fieldWhat it tells you
Name, age, race/sexDescriptors for matching a person.
Intake date and timeCounty booking time, not web-posting time.
CityLocation entered in the jail record.
Department and officerAgency information recorded at intake.
ChargesCharges as booked, subject to change.
BondBooking-stage amount or custody notation.
Release dateA custody-status clue, not the case result.
ImageBooking image when the interface supplies it.

Bond alone doesn't explain why someone was released or held. A hold can belong to another agency or court entirely. For those details, confirm with the Perry County Sheriff's Office or the issuing court.


Marion Weekly Arrest Reports

The Perry County Herald's Marion Police Department weekly report takes a different approach than booking-photo sites. It is dated, text-based, and organized by event. Names and charges appear alongside incident reports, with no image gallery attached. The Herald describes itself as a locally owned weekly serving Marion, Uniontown, Perry County, and nearby Black Belt communities.

A newspaper report like this can hold context that a jail roster loses once it rolls forward. It is not an official custody record, though. For current status, check the jail's iSOMS query directly, and look to court records for how a case ended. The published weekly report shows the plain text format Marion relies on.

Perry County police blotter Marion weekly arrest report

The capture is secondary news context, not proof of current Perry County jail custody.


Perry City Arrest Sources Differ

City sources in Perry County do not match up. Uniontown Police Department posts an official selected-arrests page with photos, names, dates, and charges, but no fixed schedule and no stated archive depth. Marion's official city page offers no comparable live arrest roster. Its weekly text reports surface through the Herald instead. Treat these as separate systems rather than one countywide log.

Regional news adds another layer. WAKA, WSFA, and official ALEA releases can document a major investigation in Perry County. Those items are episodic, not daily feeds, and they may lack a booking image. For county-jail custody, official iSOMS intake comes first. Municipal sources come next for selected city activity. News reports round it out with context.


Older Perry Arrest Records

Perry County publishes no booking-photo retention rule and no permanent iSOMS archive policy. So an old intake still sitting on the roster could mean long custody, a hold, or a data quirk. A missing entry might have rolled off, been corrected, or moved offline. Either way, nothing is proven about destruction of the record.

Request the record directly instead. The Perry County Sheriff's Office keeps booking sheets, photos, release records, and prisoner-book entries on request. Send the full legal name, an approximate date, the arresting agency, any charge or warrant number you know, and the exact record type you want. The office sits at 202 Pickens St., Marion, AL 36756, and answers the phone at (334) 683-6534. Ask too whether an older record moved to the Perry Circuit Clerk.

State law matters here. Alabama requires authorized records-disposition rules before local records can be destroyed, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History records FAQ walks through that framework. It sets no Perry booking-photo term, though. The state incarceration collection centers on correctional history, so it offers no guarantee that county booking files were ever digitized.


Perry Arrests Need Court Follow-Up

A blotter entry is only the opening page of a case, not its end. Charges can shrink, change, or vanish once the matter reaches a judge. The Perry Circuit Clerk and the Alacourt docket track what courts actually decide, so turn there once an arrest moves past booking. Not every Perry County case shows up online. For a certified copy or a status check, the clerk's office is the place to ask.

Booked, released, and sentenced are three different things. Someone released from jail in Perry County can still have a booking record long after leaving the roster. A sentenced person transferred to ADOC appears in the state offender search instead. Federal custody calls for a federal locator. Watch the dates, too: the day of the incident, the arrest date, the time of intake, the news date, and the court filing date rarely line up.

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