Bolivar County Municipal Court Warrants
A Bolivar County municipal court is a city's bench. It hears ordinance cases, misdemeanors, and traffic tickets inside city limits. Miss a setting or leave a fine unpaid, and the judge issues process of his own. That warrant is a city record. The city clerk files it, the city judge signs it, and city police often carry it rather than the county. Here is what surprises people. A Bolivar County warrant inquiry can come back empty while a city file sits open a few miles away. The two systems were never connected.
No Bolivar County City Warrant Search
None of the nine Bolivar County city courts publishes a warrant search or citation lookup. There is no active list either. No city posts a status page of any kind. That leaves a phone call to the clerk as the only warrant check available.
Key Point: What every city does have is a court contact. The state judicial directory carries an official block for each municipal judge, and that contact is the working substitute for the portal that does not exist.
Bolivar County Cities With Municipal Courts
The 2025 Mississippi Secretary of State judicial directory lists the official contact block for every city court in Bolivar County. Cleveland documents its court separately. Treat a mailing address as a place to send letters, not proof of a public counter. Call before you drive.
| City Court | Official Directory Contact | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Benoit | Judge James Strait, PO Box 66 | 662-742-3751 |
| Cleveland | Court office, 315 S Sharpe Ave. | 662-843-7346 |
| Gunnison | Judge Harold Ward, PO Box 278 | 662-747-2213 |
| Merigold | Judge James Strait, Box 348 | 662-748-2765 |
| Mound Bayou | Judge Harold Ward, PO Box 680 | 662-741-2194 |
| Pace | Judge Harold Ward, PO Box 216 | 662-723-6292 |
| Rosedale | Judge Betty Taylor, PO Box 370 | 662-759-6813 |
| Shaw | Judge Natasha Magee-Woods, PO Box 679 | 662-754-3131 |
| Shelby | Judge James Strait, PO Box 463 | 662-398-5156 |
Checking a Municipal Court Warrant
A Bolivar County city warrant check is quick with paperwork in hand and slow without it. Work the channels below in order. Stop once a clerk speaks to the file.
- Call the city court clerk or coordinator using the directory contact above and read out the citation number.
- Ask what the record is titled, when it was issued, and whether the court requires an appearance.
- If the clerk points to the police department, ask that agency only whether it holds paper for service.
- Call the Sheriff's Office at 662-843-5378 if no one can say which agency has it.
- Send a written request to the city court or police department when a releasable record is not available at the counter.
Note: A traffic citation follows the same city route in Bolivar County, and its payment and clearing details are on the traffic warrant page. The clerk handles both kinds of paper.
Cleveland and Bolivar County Warrant Information
Cleveland posts the county's one real court page. Its official Municipal Court page states the court's jurisdiction over city ordinances, misdemeanors, and traffic citations. It also lists services. Fine payment, court appearances, warrant information, and processing citations and documents all appear there, so read it before calling anywhere else in Bolivar County.
Warrant information there means staff answering a question, not a database. No other Bolivar County city publishes even that.
Cleveland Municipal Court
315 S Sharpe Ave., PO Box 1439
Cleveland, MS 38732
662-843-7346
Inside a Municipal Court Warrant
No Bolivar County city publishes a sample warrant record. These are items a clerk would read aloud, not fields on a screen. Some may be withheld. The county has never said which parts a member of the public may see.
| City and Court | The municipality whose judge signed the process |
|---|---|
| Citation or Case Number | The city's own number, separate from any county case number |
| Ordinance or Offense | The city rule or misdemeanor behind the matter |
| Setting That Was Missed | The date or obligation the court says went unmet |
| Issuing Judge | The municipal judge, who may also sit for other city benches |
| Holding Agency | Often the city police department rather than the county |
| Status and Effective Date | Open, recalled, or closed, as of the date the clerk gives you |
Bolivar County Municipal and Justice Court Warrants
People often swap these two courts. The confusion sends them to the wrong Bolivar County building. Both hear everyday matters, but only one is a city court.
| Point | Municipal Court | Justice Court |
|---|---|---|
| Whose court it is | The city's | The county's |
| What it hears | City ordinances, misdemeanors, city traffic | County criminal and civil matters within its statutory reach |
| Where it sits | Nine separate cities | One office in Cleveland |
| Who to call | That city's court contact | 662-843-4008 |
| Usual serving agency | City police | Sheriff or constable |
The county's own lower court is described on the Justice Court page.
How to Resolve a Municipal Court Warrant
Ask the city court what it will accept, because nothing about that answer is standard across Bolivar County. Some matters close with a payment. Others need a new setting or a bond. Still others need a judge's attention. No city posts a bond schedule, a recall form, a walk-in hour, or an identification rule. Get each answer from the clerk before you travel. An attorney can make the call, ask about a scheduled appearance, and file a motion where the court permits one.
Caution: A city's payment link does not recall a warrant, and Cleveland is the only city in the county with an official payment route at all.
Confirming a Bolivar County City Warrant
Get it in writing. A small Bolivar County city court may run on a single clerk, and a verbal answer given in a busy hour is easy to lose.
- Ask whether the person on the phone is reading the court docket or only a payment balance.
- Ask for the process title, the issuing judge, and the date any change took effect.
- Ask what document proves a recall, a new setting, or a closure, and how to get a copy.
- Ask whether the underlying city case is finished or still pending.
A state fugitive program page is a different system. It is not a city docket. Bolivar County entries of that kind are covered on the most wanted list page.