In Gwinnett County, arrest warrants are issued through the Magistrate Court. The active warrants are then served by the Gwinnett sheriff’s department Field Operation Division. This division includes the Warrants Unit, the Uniforms Unit, the Fugitive Unit, the Sex Offender Registration Unit, and several others. According to strict federal and state guidelines, the Warrants Unit processes, tracks, and verifies the 23,000 criminal warrants they receive in an average year. The Uniforms Unit serves warrants to the suspects. These can be related to felonies, misdemeanors, bench warrants, and Recorder’s Court warrants. Besides, a citizen may request to have a warrant served against someone if they have been the victim of a criminal misdemeanor. He or she can go to the Magistrate Court and complete a criminal arrest warrant application form. A judge will read the form and decide whether a crime has occurred under Georgia law, and if so, he or she will order a warrant application hearing. Both the citizen seeking the arrest warrant and the alleged offender will have the chance to speak at the hearing; if the judge decides that there is probable cause to issue a warrant from the evidence presented, he or she may do so without further delay. The Magistrate Court also issues search warrants, civil warrants, and bench warrants.
The Gwinnett County sheriff’s office has set up a searchable online database organized alphabetically by the offender’s last name to find a bench warrant. It is located at http://www.gwinnettcountysheriff.com/pages/SexOffenders. The sheriff and other Gwinnett County officials also set up a service called VINELink, which is intended to provide the victims of crime with updated information on the custody status of the offender who committed the crime. On a local level, the Sheriff’s department has set up a search of the official docket containing inmate information, which can be found https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/portal/gwinnett/Services/CourtsLawandJustice/JailandInmateInformation. It has information on all active inmates. You need to click the relevant link on this page to make sure it works well. The last time we checked, it gave a no found record. You can contact them directly if this problem still occurs. VINELink can be found at https://www.vinelink.com/#/home/site/11002. For active and outstanding arrest warrants, you can check with the Magistrate Court, located at 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, GA, 30045.
How do you get information on Gwinnett County active warrants and arrests over the phone? (2021- Update)
- Recent arrests related details: 770-619-6500
- Incident and arrest reports: 770-513-5000
- Details about active warrants: 770-619-6800
- General questions about criminal matters: 770-619-6500
- Criminal case-related questions: 770-822-3159
- Information on Victim/Witness assistance: 770-822-8444
- Questions about judicial records access: 770-822-8100.
Crime Statistics of Gwinnett County, GA
The Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office handled around 15,500 criminal complaints in 2019, compared to more than 21,000 in 2018. Of these, around 14,000 were property offenses and 1500 were violent offenses.
The reported crimes included: around 11,000 larceny thefts, nearly 1900 burglaries, over 1200 auto thefts, approximately 900 aggravated assaults, 170 rapes, and 455 robberies.
From 2008 to 2010, there were almost 73,700 crimes committed in Gwinnett County, Georgia. This included robbery, larceny, burglary, car theft, assault, rape, and murder. The numbers remained relatively consistent from 2008 to 2009, dropping slightly from a little above 25,200 to less than 25,100. However, there was a much more significant decline between 2009 and 2010, falling to about 23,000 – meaning nearly 2,000 fewer crimes were committed. This is an encouraging trend for the county of Gwinnett.