Getting arrested can undoubtedly be a harrowing experience, more so if you don’t know what your rights are and why you are being taken into custody. Each year, of the millions of people arrested across the country, almost 30% are taken into custody based on an arrest warrant.
A warrant for arrest is a judicial order to detain a person and present him/her in court. It is exclusively issued by a branch of the judiciary in Morgan County, IN, that holds the authority to depose in criminal matters.
Before such an order is handed over to the police, the sitting magistrate is legally obligated to consider the evidence in the matter and ascertain that probable cause exists to hold the person in question accountable for the crime.
If an active arrest warrant is issued against a person, he/she will without a doubt be arrested as the order stays in effect till such time that the accused is taken into custody. Sometimes, the issuance of a warrant can lead to quick action from the local law enforcement agency, while in other scenarios, it may take a while for the police to pursue an accused with a warrant in his name.
Meanwhile, the arrest order is stored in a central database and is legally termed as an outstanding arrest warrant. For information on arrest records and outstanding warrants, visit the Sheriff’s Office in Morgan County at 160 N Park Ave, Martinsville, Indiana 46151. A warrant search on the internet is often a better option, but you will need to fill the form above to access the arrest records database.
If you need information on Morgan County recent arrest and warrants, whom should you call? (In 2021)
- When you want to know about recent arrests, call the Morgan County Jail at (765) 342-4303
- When you want to contact a detective who is working on your case (only for victims), call the Sheriff’s Office at (765) 342-5544 or Martinsville PD at (765) 349-4900.
- When you are interested in a local criminal background check, warrants search or arrest records inquiry, call the Sheriff’s Office at (765) 342-1080.
- When you need to get in touch with Victim/Witness Services, call the Victim’s Advocate at (765) 342-1050
- When you want to know about accessing criminal court records, contact the Clerk of Circuit Court- (765) 342-1025.
Crime statistics of Morgan County
At 6.5/1000 resident, the property crime rate of Morgan County is one-fourth the state and national averages. An estimated 450 criminal complaints are filed in this crime category each year. These include over 200 cases of burglary and around 140 cases of theft. Every year, over 180 cases are filed against violent crimes and nearly 200 complaints are filed against vandalism.
In Morgan, Indiana, nearly 1100 crime cases are filed each year with a daily crime average of almost three incidents; this works out to over 11,000 reports between 1999 and 2008. Of this gross crime figure, theft and robbery incidents were numbered at roughly 10,000. Simultaneously, rapes and murders with just about 35 and 3 cases respectively only formed a small part of the total criminal activity.
Over this decade, there was only a single-digit increase in the violent crime rate while property crime increased by over 30%. Starting at only about 100 criminal incidents in 1999, Morgan still clocks one of the state’s lowest crime rates.