This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot verify custody, release anyone, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the office that holds the record.
Official Haywood County Contacts
The Haywood County Sheriff’s Office and Detention Center share the Law Enforcement Center address. Use the records form for documents, and use the detention line for current custody.
Haywood County Sheriff’s Office1620 Brown Avenue
Waynesville, NC 28786
Front office: (828) 452-6768
Non-emergency communications: (828) 452-6666
Front office: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.Haywood County Detention Center
1620 Brown Avenue
Waynesville, NC 28786
Inmate information: (828) 452-6670, option 1
Detention office: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Custody and dispatch operations continue around the clock.
For a booking document or image, submit the HCSO public-records request form. No fixed booking-photo fee or response deadline is posted, so request a cost estimate when the scope is broad.
- For a mugshot or booking record, start with the county arrest-record lookup and request the exact record from HCSO.
- For someone arrested today, use the Daily Arrest Report guidance and call the detention line.
- For dated weekly coverage, see the Weekly Arrest Log.
- For a release or transfer alert, use the VINELink Inmate Check.
- For a city-created incident report, contact Waynesville, Canton, or Maggie Valley police as appropriate.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the NCDAC offender search.
- Use BOP or ICE locators only when the person may be in federal or immigration custody.