Yalobusha Municipal Release Paths
No separately advertised municipal jail, city custody roster, or recent-release system was verified for Water Valley or Coffeeville. “Municipal holding” therefore describes a possible short-term police custody path, not a named detention facility with a published address, capacity, phone line, or release portal. Do not assign county jail facts to a city police department without confirming the booking.
A city arrest may end through citation, bond, recognizance, dismissal, time served, or another court order. It can also lead to booking at Yalobusha County Detention Center or a transfer to another custodian. At least Water Valley municipal bookings are documented at the county facility, but that does not prove every Water Valley arrest or any particular Coffeeville arrest entered the county jail.
The first record should answer where the person was physically held. If the arresting department kept custody, confirm release with that department and obtain the municipal court record. If the county jail accepted the person, the sheriff's statutory docket becomes the durable local record. A transfer must be traced to the receiving agency rather than described as community release.
Confirm Yalobusha Municipal Release
Start with the arrest report, citation, or case number when available. Those details identify the city, arresting department, charge, and likely court. Ask the department whether the person was released directly, booked into Yalobusha County Detention Center, or sent to another agency. No reliable public city roster can answer that question.
- Identify whether Water Valley or Coffeeville police made the arrest.
- Ask where the person was physically held after the arrest.
- Confirm whether custody ended by bond, citation, court order, time served, dismissal, or transfer.
- Obtain the municipal court docket and the bond or release order.
- If booked at the county jail, request the sheriff's jail-docket entry and release authority.
- If transferred, verify the receiving agency and its current or historical record.
A release order can be entered before the holding agency completes discharge. Keep the order date and physical release time separate. For a named person whose custody may have crossed county, state, or federal systems, the Yalobusha County released inmate search provides the broader source sequence.
Yalobusha Municipal Court Records
The court record explains the legal basis for release and the later case result. A municipal court holds municipal misdemeanor and bond records. Yalobusha Justice Court handles county misdemeanors, driving-under-the-influence matters, county ordinances, and initial felony appearances. Circuit Court preserves felony indictment, plea or verdict, judgment, sentence, revocation, and later orders.
The official Yalobusha courts overview distinguishes these jurisdictions and the county's two judicial districts.
The captured county page helps route the case to the right court. It does not provide the physical release timestamp from a police holding area or the county jail.
Ask the appropriate municipal court for the docket, bond or recognizance order, disposition, sentence, dismissal, and any later expunction order. When a felony moved to Circuit Court, use the Circuit Clerk and the correct judicial district. Search both districts when arrest location, case number, or venue is uncertain.
Yalobusha County Booking Transfer
When municipal police deliver a person to Yalobusha County Detention Center, the county jail becomes the physical custodian. The Sheriff page gives the jail and office contacts and states that the sheriff keeps the jail docket. It publishes no online roster, booking archive, or release list.
Mississippi Code section 19-25-63 requires the docket to record the process supporting confinement, the prisoner's name, receipt and commitment dates, cause, custody authority, length imprisoned, how released or discharged, and the release warrant or penitentiary officer's receipt. Request the entry for the specific municipal booking and the document behind its outcome.
| County docket field | Municipal-release value |
|---|---|
| Name and receipt date | Links the city arrest to the county booking. |
| Cause and authority | Shows why the person entered county custody and under whose process. |
| Release timestamp | Shows when the county jail completed the physical discharge. |
| How released or discharged | Preserves bond, court order, time served, dismissal, expiration, or transfer wording. |
| Supporting warrant or receipt | Identifies the legal authority or receiving custodian. |
A county booking that ends in delivery to MDOC, another county, federal authority, or ICE is a transfer. It should not be described as municipal release to the community. Confirm the destination through the receiving agency.
Note: Water Valley municipal bookings are documented at the county facility, but no source supports that path for every city arrest.
Yalobusha Municipal Release Meanings
The disposition label controls the claim that can be made. Bond ends physical detention under conditions, while the case continues. A citation or recognizance release may avoid a longer booking but does not equal acquittal. Dismissal or a not-guilty judgment is a case outcome, and the holding record still supplies the actual custody end time.
- Bond release
- Physical custody ends under a court-approved financial or other bond, while the charge remains pending.
- Recognizance
- Release occurs on promised compliance and stated conditions without treating the case as dismissed.
- Time served
- The court credits confinement toward a sentence; other terms may remain.
- Dismissal
- The court or prosecutor ends the charge in the documented manner, distinct from the release timestamp.
- Transfer
- The local holding episode ends because another agency receives custody.
Preserve the source's exact language. “Not found” is not a release type. Neither a court order nor a news report should be substituted for the holding agency's actual exit record when timing matters.
Yalobusha Two-District Record Search
Yalobusha County has two county seats and two judicial districts. Circuit matters can be filed in the First District at Coffeeville or the Second District at Water Valley. A search of only one office can miss a related felony record even after police or jail staff confirms the arrest.
Identify the arrest location, court level, case number, and district. Municipal court may preserve the first bond or misdemeanor disposition. Justice Court may preserve an initial felony appearance. Circuit Court becomes the durable source for felony judgment and sentence. The physical release record remains with the department or jail that held the person.
Mississippi Electronic Courts offers public access for participating courts, but complete Yalobusha municipal, justice, and historic coverage was not established. A missing result may reflect the wrong court, a paper record, spelling variation, sealing, or expunction. Follow up with the relevant clerk rather than treating the empty search as proof.
Municipal Versus Federal Holding
A municipal arrest should not be routed to the Bureau of Prisons unless the facts later establish a federal sentence. Federal pretrial custody may instead be administered by the U.S. Marshals Service in a contract facility. The Marshals Service has no public nationwide detainee locator comparable to BOP.
The U.S. Marshals custody information explains the federal role. A federal court order can authorize release, detention, dismissal, time served, or supervised release, while the holding facility or USMS confirms the discharge time. A transfer from city or county custody under federal authority is not a local community release.
Likewise, an immigration detainer can lead to ICE custody. No Yalobusha ICE contract or ICE facility was verified. Search the appropriate federal system only when the arrest record, docket, detainer, or receiving-agency information points there.
Yalobusha Municipal Record Changes
A later dismissal, not-guilty finding, sealing order, or expunction can change what remains publicly visible. Mississippi Code section 99-19-71 includes a route for qualifying arrests where the person was released and the case was dismissed, charges were dropped, no disposition occurred, or the person was found not guilty. Eligibility depends on the statute and court order.
An expunction can lawfully break the public search trail. Limited nonpublic government records may remain for statutory purposes, but ordinary search results can disappear. Do not rebuild a removed official trail from stale copies. Request the current order from the court and ask the record-owning agency how it implemented the change.
Youth, sealed, expunged, victim-identifying, investigative, and other exempt information must remain protected. When part of an otherwise public record is exempt, request redaction and the segregable remainder rather than assuming the entire municipal record must be disclosed.
Municipal Release Record Contacts
No verified stand-alone municipal holding address, custody phone, operating hours, or release desk was found. Contact the arresting Water Valley or Coffeeville police department through a current official city source, then confirm which court and physical custodian handled the event. Do not use the county jail address unless staff confirms a county booking.
Municipal Police Holding
Water Valley or Coffeeville, Mississippi
No separately advertised municipal jail verified
No public municipal release-search system verified
Confirm current contact with the arresting department.
County-Booking Fallback
Yalobusha County Detention Center
11803 Highway 32
Water Valley, MS 38965
Jail: 662-473-2722
Use only when a county booking is confirmed.
For a written county record, ask for the sheriff docket entry and supporting release authority. For a municipal case, request the court docket and order. Each office should be asked only for the event it created or maintained.