Tillar Arrests Cross a County Line
Tillar counted 172 residents in 2020. It is a small town. Its complication is bigger than its size. The county line runs straight through it. Part of Tillar sits in Drew County, and part sits in Desha. A town label cannot tell you which sheriff made the arrest, which jail did the booking, or which court holds the case. Search by name, date, agency, and county at once. Never treat the word Tillar as proof that a result belongs in Drew County.
Tillar runs no municipal arrest roster. No blotter or booking-photo page exists either. That leaves the counties. For the Drew side, use the sheriff's live inmate roster and the Drew County Jail and Detention Center contacts. Facts pointing across the line belong to Desha County officials. This page lists no Desha portal, so confirm the right office with that county directly.
Where Tillar Recent Arrests Appear
Which county holds the record? That decides where to look. The Drew County roster covers current custody in its jail and nothing more. Arkansas VINE offers custody search and notice tools. Search ARCourts can be filtered by county and court. Send a records request to the actual custodian, not the county you tried first.
| Channel | Photo | Official? | Boundary role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drew County roster | May display one | Yes | Current Drew County jail custody |
| Appropriate Desha source | Depends on official source | Use government source | Check when agency or booking points to Desha County |
| Arkansas VINE | Not a local photo file | Yes | Custody search and possible notices |
| Search ARCourts | No booking gallery | Yes | Choose county and court filters |
| Regional news | Sometimes | No | Discovery only, never proof of county |
No single channel gives a full Tillar arrest history. A roster shows who is in custody now. A court system tracks a case, not a jail stay. News coverage is spotty. An older booking record usually takes a public-records request to the office that keeps it.
Find Someone Arrested in Tillar
Settle the geography first. A third-party entry can label a person by residence, arrest scene, agency address, or booking county. Those fields are not the same thing. Save each displayed label and date instead of blending them into one story.
- Collect the full name, aliases if known, date or narrow range, event location, and responding agency.
- Ask whether that location and agency point to Drew County, Desha County, or another jurisdiction.
- For Drew County custody, check the official Drew County roster in a script-enabled browser.
- Check Arkansas VINELink for a specific custody search. A delay or no result does not settle the county question.
- Use Search ARCourts with the appropriate county, court, participant name, aliases, and date filters.
- Send a narrow records request to the arresting agency or booking custodian. Ask another office to identify the custodian if it has no responsive record.
For a fresh Drew-side arrest, 24 Hour Arrests explains the current feed and its booking lag. That feed covers Drew County custody only. A missing entry there proves nothing about Desha County. An arrest on the other side of the line never shows up in it.
Drew-Side Tillar Arrest Booking
The county's jail description is direct. People arrested in Drew County go to the Drew County Jail and Detention Center for booking and incarceration. That makes the jail the natural first stop for a Drew-side Tillar search, though the county line, other agencies, citations, releases, and transfers can change the route.
The roster is an OCV JavaScript Inmates Feed. A plain fetch may return only an application shell. A browser renders the live content. Updates have no guaranteed hour. There is no fixed historical window, and no rule promises a photo with every entry. If an image is missing, say it is not displayed rather than claiming no booking photo exists.
The official roster source shows the live county custody list. It is not a photo gallery. Names there belong to people in custody now.

Treat the roster as a current county custody tool. It is not a Tillar-only feed. It is not a Desha County search. And it is no complete historic log of arrests.
Request Tillar Arrest Records Carefully
Tillar has no municipal police records portal or request form. Requests go to the agency that made the arrest or the jail that created the booking record. A Drew County booking starts with the sheriff or jail custodian. Desha bookings go to the matching Desha custodian. Confirm its current contact details first.
A strong Arkansas FOIA request gives the person's full name, aliases, a narrow date range, the arresting agency if known, and the record sought. Ask for the publicly releasable booking record and photograph, if maintained. Put it in writing. That preserves the scope and the response. If the office has no record, ask whether it can point to the likely agency. Do not assume the arrest never happened.
- Confirm the county and responsible agency.
- Send the request to the identified custodian.
- Separate jail records from court records.
- Ask for segregable nonexempt portions if some content is restricted.
- Retain the response and verify any case disposition in court.
210 South Main Street
Monticello, AR 71655
24-hour phone: 870-367-6211
Email: info@drewcountysheriff.com
Administrative hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The jail's published contacts list 870-460-6215 for questions. Jail administrator Courtney Hale can be reached at 870-460-6218 or drewcountyjail@yahoo.com. The county pages post no booking-record fee or fixed turnaround. Arkansas FOIA allows actual reproduction and mailing costs. Restricted or sealed material may be withheld.
Tillar Arrest Identity Pitfalls
Small towns share names. A match is never certain on its own. The result might involve a nearby community, an old event, or a location field copied without context. Compare date of birth when lawfully shown, aliases, the event date, the arresting agency, the booking county, and the court. Never identify someone from a face alone.
- Arrest location
- The place where the agency says an arrest occurred.
- Residence
- An address field that may differ from the event and jail location.
- Booking county
- The jurisdiction whose jail processed the custody record.
- Disposition
- The court's final resolution, which may differ from the booked charge.
Arrest date, booking date, first appearance, filing date, and disposition date are different events. A report can be right about one and still mislead. Never pass one off as another. Keep every source label. Resist compressing the timeline.
Courts After a Tillar Arrest
Search ARCourts lets you filter by participant, county, court, and date. When the booking county is unclear, run a search for each candidate county. Timing also matters here. A court case can surface weeks after a person walks out of the Tillar jail. And a booking entry alone tells you nothing about whether charges were ever filed.
Cases from Drew County land in different offices. The 28th State District Court takes many misdemeanor criminal and traffic matters. The Drew County Circuit Clerk handles circuit-level filings and most felony cases. Not every Tillar arrest goes to either one. Desha County cases need their own court selection in the official system. Then a call to the right clerk helps.
Tillar Arrest News Is Regional
Tillar has no dedicated arrest news archive of its own. The closest regional sources are Monticello Live Police/Legal and South Ark Daily Police/Legal. Coverage there runs hot and cold, often leaning toward Monticello or neighboring counties. A quiet feed says nothing about whether someone was arrested in Tillar.
Read any Tillar story with care. Does "Tillar" mark a home address, the scene, the arresting agency, or the county? Match the report against the official roster and the right court filter. Mugshot sites copy place labels from each other. They often leave stale pages online long after custody or charges change. Treat them as leads. The official search comes first.
Custody Beyond Tillar Recent Arrests
A live jail roster shows who is in custody right now. Someone can be released or moved while their booking record still sits with the custodian. Arkansas VINE can send custody notices. Its statewide material does not name Drew County on its own. Pair it with the local roster. Never swap one for the other.
Different systems track different stages. A sentence can move a person into state custody. At that point, the Arkansas Department of Correction search becomes the official locator. Federal custody means going to the right federal agency source. A local search that comes up empty does not prove release. A state profile is not evidence of a new Tillar arrest either.
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