Who Issues Chenango County Arrest Warrants?
Judges issue arrest warrants after receiving sworn complaints or listening to sworn testimony establishing probable cause. Probable cause exists for an arrest warrant if the judge believes that the alleged suspect committed the crime based on the facts presented. While an arrest warrant is not proof of guilt, it is something to take very seriously. If you believe that you have an outstanding warrant, you can do a warrant search to confirm your belief. My advice for doing this in Chenango County is to search court records and contact the Sheriff’s Department.
Where is the County Court Located?
The Chenango County Supreme Court and County Court are located in the County Office Building at 5 Court Street in Norwich, NY 13815. Most criminal cases begin with an arrest warrant. To search court records for active and closed criminal cases, you must visit the Clerk of Court’s office during regular business hours (9 am to 5 pm). The court staff can show you how to search public records but cannot give legal advice regarding ongoing court cases.
It would help if you also searched for active warrants with the Norwich City Court. It is located at One Court Plaza in Norwich, NY 13815. This court has limited jurisdiction in Chenango County but does issue some arrest warrants.
Anytime I need any questions answered, I go straight to Chenango County Sheriff’s Office; they can answer any of my questions about outstanding warrants. My reason for this is because the county sheriff must be included in any warrant search in Chenango County. It can also provide copies of arrest records for a fee. The office is located at 279 County Route 46 in Norwich, NY 13815. Unfortunately, you cannot get information about outstanding warrants online. However, the Sheriff’s Office does have a list of the county’s most wanted on its website. There is also a list of the county’s unsolved crimes on the Sheriff’s website.
Can you get any information about Chenango County warrants and arrests over the phone? (2023)
- For information on arrests, call the Booking Desk at 607-337-1850.
- For inmate records and inmate visitation, call the Jail Lobby at 607-337-1967.
- Contact the Administration Division of the Sheriff’s Office at 607-337-1848 for arrest records, and incident and accident reports.
- For information on civil processes such as bench warrants, call the Civil Division at 607-337-1849.
- For judicial records, call the Chenango County Courthouse at 607-337-1457.
Where can you find criminal court Records?
As I stated earlier, it is best to go to the Chenango County Courthouse and speak to the clerks in person regarding any information you might need for you or someone you know. However, court dockets and anything coming up on those dockets must be made available to the public. This makes it very convenient if you only need to look for updates for court cases or anything relatively minor.
My recommendation of speaking directly to the county clerk’s office still stands. Because of the exponential increase in Chenango County’s crime rate, the courts are often behind on inputting all the information needed, so your information may not have made its way to the public domain yet. If you think you have a court date but do not see anything on the court docket for you, I would suggest calling the clerks’ office to see what information they have.
Chenango Police Blotter
When going through their days, police encounter a lot of different people and situations. To keep up with all of these interactions, the officer must keep a police log. These logs should contain all police reports they have written up for that day and annotate anything else that may have happened for the day.
This is significant because our names should show up in the police records when we get a ticket or are otherwise stopped by an officer. If your name is not in the police blotter, then you likely won’t have to worry about court dates or anything else regarding the court system (that is always a good thing).
So how do you know if your name is in the blotter? Well, luckily for us, the Federal Freedom of Information Act mandates that the police logbook, known affectionately as a blotter, be available for the public to see and read. So, read it, and if you aren’t mentioned, you are clear.
Crime Statistics for Chenango County, New York
In Chenango County, roughly 790 criminal complaints were lodged in 2020. Approximately 670 of them were for property offenses, such as larceny-theft (501), burglary (46), and motor vehicle thefts (25). In the category of violent crimes, aggravated assaults and rape cases brought in around 53 complaints each while robbery cases accounted for 7 complaints.
For the ten years from 1999 through 2008, overall crime rates in Chenango County increased by almost thirty percent while violent crimes decreased by about the same percentage. While most crimes reported during this time related to burglary and theft, there were four murders, sixty-four rapes, and approximately one hundred fifty assaults said.