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Beaufort Busted Mugshots

Carteret County's Sheriff is John R. Nyberg. His office keeps the county's official booking and custody records. Three county pages matter most: the inmate-search explanation, the Sheriff Records page, and the public-record request page. The CCDC is the county jail. State prison sentences and supervision belong to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction.

Beaufort itself is small. The 2020 Census counted 4,464 residents in the General Assembly's municipality report, though that figure measures the town, not jail activity. The Beaufort Police Department calls itself a full-service agency. It runs four patrol squads on 12-hour shifts, plus a criminal-investigations unit with a detective sergeant and a detective. The address is 701 Front Street, Beaufort, NC 28516. The main line is 252-728-2141.

Town officers sometimes arrest, and county detention follows. The custody record then lands at CCDC in Beaufort. The Sheriff's inmate portal is the go-to check for who is held right now. Police, Sheriff Records, and the courts each keep their own documents. One office rarely holds the full file.

The official Beaufort Police page is the city source. This capture is an agency-page reference, not a gallery.

The city's records help you pin down which agency made the arrest. For custody itself, CCDC remains the practical county route.

Where Beaufort Busted Mugshots Appear

Beaufort posts no routine arrest roster, daily blotter, or public mugshot feed. The town document library does hold a lone item marked "BPD Arrest Aug. 5, 2025." The police statistics PDF lists aggregate totals. Those are occasional disclosures, not a live person-level feed. An example arrest release shows how the town reports a single event, though it doesn't promise a photo with every notice.

Aggregator sites sometimes attach Beaufort labels to bookings. RecentlyBooked, BustedNewspaper, Mugshots.com, Arrests.org, and Mugshots.Zone are the common names. Their coverage can lag or skip records entirely. An old booking photo may stay up long after release. Start with the city, the Sheriff, and the courts instead.

Busted in Beaufort: Search Steps

Search Beaufort records with two tracks in mind: the event record sits with the city, while the custody record sits with the county.

1. Save the name, date, agency, and charge wording from the story or notice.
2. Search the official CCDC portal by name, charge description, and a one-day or wider recent-days window.
3. If the person is not found, call 252-504-4832. Release, transfer, timing, spelling, or restricted status can change the roster result.
4. Ask Beaufort Police for the city incident or arrest record. No current city mugshot form, fee, or deadline was located.
5. Ask Sheriff Records at 252-728-8400 ext. 8801 for the county booking record or booking print, if releasable.
6. Use the NC court portal and Carteret Clerk of Court at 252-504-4400 for case and disposition information.

The Carteret County booking guide walks through the roster, records requests, the state DOC, and federal and ICE boundaries. It also covers why an empty current-custody result doesn't mean no arrest record ever existed.

Beaufort Police Records

Start with Beaufort's official site for anything city-generated. The document library holds that isolated arrest item rather than a running feed. The statistics PDF tracks aggregate activity. The example arrest release proves the town will publish event-specific charge details on occasion. It doesn't guarantee a public photo for every arrest. It also can't replace the actual case file.

To request records, contact the police department at 701 Front Street, Beaufort, NC 28516. Or call 252-728-2141 and ask for the current records custodian. Give the name, the rough date, and any case or incident number. Say whether you want an incident report, arrest report, or other material. No current booking-photo form, fee, or response time is published. Don't rely on the old FY2019 fee schedule as a guide to today's costs.

If CCDC held the person, file a separate booking-print request with the Sheriff's Records Division. City police and county jail records have different custodians.

Beaufort Crime Coverage

For local news, Carolina Coast Online and the Carteret County News-Times cover the Beaufort beat. Regional outlets WITN, WCTI, and WNCT also pick up public-safety stories from the town. The town's own release and document pages highlight selected events, not a complete daily list. A story might run with an agency photo, a scene image, or nothing at all.

Check each story's date, source line, agency statement, and any later updates. Then compare the event against CCDC and the court record. Photos and headlines can linger online after a person's release, even as the roster moves on. A quiet news page, in short, proves nothing about whether a booking happened.

The Beaufort document library and WCTI local section show the difference between official city material and regional coverage.

Beaufort's patchy release habit explains why searches often feel incomplete. The document library may show one event and the statistics PDF a total. Neither names everyone booked at CCDC. Someone released from custody drops off the live roster, even though the Sheriff's Records Division still holds the booking print. Ask the police for the city incident record, then the Sheriff for the county booking record. If the question is how a charge ended, turn to the Carteret Clerk and the NC court portal. Those handoffs keep a selected release, a copied image, or a stale roster result from standing in for the whole case.

Note: Aggregate Beaufort police statistics describe department activity, not the names, photos, or court outcomes of individual bookings.

Start any Beaufort lookup with a clear question. Who is in custody right now? CCDC holds that answer. A city arrest belongs to Beaufort Police instead. Booking print requests go to Sheriff Records, but only when the detention record was created there. Later case action sits with the court portal or the clerk. When a source comes up empty, treat it as a records boundary. That gap rarely proves the event never happened.

Beaufort Busted Arrests and Court Results

Think of the record path as a handoff. Beaufort Police handles the incident. CCDC handles county custody. Sheriff Records supplies booking prints, and the clerk or court portal covers what came after. State prison status lives with NCDAC, not the county roster. Federal and immigration questions go to BOP and ICE. Neither agency feeds a Beaufort booking list.

That isolated-release pattern shapes how this page treats Beaufort sources. An official town record can document an event without serving as a live arrest log. So request the underlying record when a result truly matters. Get it from the agency that created it. Then use the court file for the legal outcome.