Tarrant County Warrants

Which courts issue warrants in Tarrant County

Tarrant County is unusual in that almost all of its serious-criminal warrant business is centralized in a single Fort Worth courthouse: the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center houses both the eleven felony district courts and the ten County Criminal Courts. Spread out from there are the eight Justice of the Peace precincts and the city municipal courts, which carry the fine-only Class C side. The Sheriff enforces it all.

Rather than reading Tarrant warrants as a long list of courts, picture two physical places: one downtown building where jailable misdemeanor and felony cases live, and a ring of neighborhood JP and city courts where tickets live. Which place — and which clerk — you deal with comes straight off the offense level. The four tiers below name every Tarrant County court that issues warrants, with the presiding judge for each, and the clerks and Sheriff block that follows tells you where the file and the enforcement sit.

Bond in every one of these courts is set under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 17, while the fine-only Class C path is governed by Chapter 45. Find the court named on your paperwork in the tables below, or open the sitewide Courts & Counties directory.

Tarrant County Felony District Courts 11 courts · felony

Eleven district courts carry Tarrant County’s felony docket, and all of them sit on the upper floors of the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center at 401 W. Belknap St. in Fort Worth. Four are constitutional criminal district courts (Criminal District Courts No. 1–4) and seven are numbered judicial-district courts assigned to felonies. They issue felony arrest and bench warrants; the cause number on your indictment or notice points to the row that is yours.

Because every felony court in Tarrant operates out of the same downtown building and routes through the same District Clerk, the path to a lifted felony warrant is shared no matter which judge’s name is on the case. A Sheriff’s deputy executes the warrant; you are booked into the Lon Evans Corrections Center, 100 N. Lamar St., Fort Worth, TX 76196; and a magistrate reviews bond under Chapter 17 before the case returns to its assigned court. Tarrant also runs its diversion work — the DIRECT drug court, the Felony Veterans Treatment Court, the Felony Alcohol Intervention Program, RISE, the Deferred Prosecution Program, and a mental-health docket — as dockets administered across these eleven benches through Criminal Courts Administration, not as separately numbered courts. The table gives the judge and the direct line for each; the criminal-court support desk is (817) 212-6957.

Every felony cause in the table is filed and tracked through the Tarrant County District Clerk at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center, and the District Clerk’s criminal docket search confirms a setting, cause number, or bond for all eleven courts at once. There is no 594th District Court in Tarrant County — that number belongs to the Comanche/Erath area, so disregard any roster that lists it here.

Tarrant County Criminal Courts 10 courts · Class A/B

Ten County Criminal Courts handle Tarrant County’s Class A and B misdemeanors — DWI, most theft and assault misdemeanors, and similar jailable-but-not-felony charges. They share the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center with the felony courts (each on its own floor, listed below) and issue the bench and alias warrants tied to those cases. Every misdemeanor cause they hear is filed with the Tarrant County Clerk.

A warrant for a misdemeanor that can put you in jail almost always traces back to one of these ten courts. They sit floor-by-floor in the same downtown building as the district courts, so booking and bond run the identical route — the Sheriff executes the warrant, intake is at the Lon Evans Corrections Center, and a magistrate sets bond under Chapter 17 — which is why that mechanism is stated here once instead of under each court. The records for all ten are held by the single Tarrant County Clerk, so one office confirms a misdemeanor case, setting, or bond regardless of which County Criminal Court signed the warrant. The table lists the judge, the floor, and the direct line for each.

Since all ten County Criminal Courts file through the one Tarrant County Clerk, you confirm any misdemeanor warrant in the table from a single records office rather than chasing a separate lookup for each court. Appeals from the JP and municipal courts are heard at the county-court level as well, so a Class C case can climb into this tier on appeal.

Tarrant County Justice of the Peace Courts 8 precincts · Class C

Tarrant County splits into eight Justice of the Peace precincts — each a single court with one judge, with no Place 1/Place 2 division of the kind Harris and Dallas use. JP courts handle Class C (fine-only) misdemeanors at the county level and issue a capias pro fine warrant when a fine or court cost goes unpaid after judgment. Their offices are scattered across the county’s subcourthouses, so match the precinct number on your citation to the right row.

What sets the JP tier apart from the courthouse-bound felony and misdemeanor courts is geography: instead of one downtown address, the eight precincts sit in subcourthouses from Lake Worth to Mansfield to Arlington, with Precincts 1 and 5 anchored in downtown Fort Worth near the criminal-justice campus. The way you clear the warrant, though, does not travel with the address — a fine-only Class C warrant is satisfied by paying the balance, arranging a payment plan, or asking for an ability-to-pay hearing under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 45, never by posting a jail-release bond. That path is identical in all eight precincts and is laid out under how to clear below; the table here just tells you which judge, office, and phone go with your precinct number.

Each precinct runs its own counter and case lookup, so confirm a JP warrant with the precinct named on your citation, then satisfy it on the fine-only path described under how to clear a Tarrant County warrant.

Municipal courts in Tarrant County city courts · Class C

Tarrant County is one of the most heavily incorporated counties in Texas, and most of its cities — Fort Worth and Arlington down to the smaller suburbs — run their own municipal courts for Class C and traffic citations. A city warrant lives with the city that wrote the ticket, not with the county courthouse, and is cleared through that city’s court. Pick the city named on your citation below.

City warrants run on the same fine-only logic as the JP courts: usually an alias warrant for a missed setting before judgment, or a capias pro fine warrant for an unpaid fine after judgment, each cleared by resolving the case, paying, setting up a plan, or requesting an ability-to-pay hearing under Chapter 45 — the route detailed under how to clear a Tarrant County warrant. Because each city keeps its own court, judge, and case lookup, start from the page for the city on your ticket:

Tarrant County clerks & Sheriff

No matter which court signed your warrant, the case file sits with a clerk and enforcement runs through the Sheriff. The District Clerk holds the felony (district court) records, the County Clerk holds the misdemeanor (County Criminal Court) records, and the Tarrant County Sheriff executes warrants countywide and books arrestees into the downtown jail.

Tarrant County District Clerk (felony records)

The Tarrant County District Clerk — Thomas A. Wilder keeps the felony district-court records and the warrants that come with them, at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center, 401 W. Belknap St., Fort Worth, TX 76196. The criminal-records line is (817) 884-1343, and the criminal docket search runs at dcsa.tarrantcounty.com.

Tarrant County Clerk (Class A / B misdemeanor records)

The Tarrant County Clerk — Mary Louise Garcia maintains the County Criminal Court records, which cover Class A and B misdemeanors. The downtown criminal office is at 100 W. Weatherford St., Room 130, Fort Worth, TX 76196; (817) 884-1195.

Tarrant County Sheriff (enforcement)

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office — Sheriff Bill E. Waybourn executes warrants countywide. Administration is at 200 Taylor St., Fort Worth, TX 76196; (817) 884-1213.

Lon Evans Corrections Center (booking)

If you are arrested or surrender on a county-level (misdemeanor or felony) warrant, intake is at the Lon Evans Corrections Center, 100 N. Lamar St., Fort Worth, TX 76196, the downtown booking jail where bond is processed. Inmate information / 24-hour line: (817) 884-3000; bond desk: (817) 884-1216. The Belknap and Cold Springs units are additional detention facilities that hold inmates after intake. City (municipal) and JP Class C warrants are typically handled at the issuing court or city jail rather than the county jail.

How to check for a Tarrant County warrant

Tarrant County does not publish a single open active-warrant lookup, so confirming a warrant means going through the right clerk — or, more safely, letting a lawyer check for you. The District Clerk’s criminal docket search covers felonies, the County Clerk covers misdemeanors, and the city municipal courts cover their own tickets; a confidential attorney check avoids tipping off enforcement.

For a felony or to look up a county-level criminal case, start with the District Clerk’s criminal docket search at dcsa.tarrantcounty.com, which runs on the county’s Tyler Odyssey system. For a Class A or B misdemeanor, the County Clerk holds the record; for a city ticket, check that city’s municipal court directly, since each keeps its own case lookup. Because Tarrant has no public “active warrant” page, an outstanding warrant is ultimately confirmed through the District Clerk, the County Clerk, or the arresting agency — and walking up to a clerk’s counter in person can itself trigger an arrest. The safest move is to have a defense lawyer verify the warrant quietly first; our guide on how to find out if you have a warrant walks through each option.

How to clear a Tarrant County warrant

Clearing a Tarrant County warrant comes down to four moves: pin down the issuing court, confirm the charge and bond, pick a path with a lawyer, then appear on the scheduled date with the bond or resolution in hand. Working through counsel usually turns a surprise arrest into a controlled, same-day surrender at the Lon Evans bond desk.

1. Pin down which Tarrant County court issued the warrant. Trace it to a municipal court, a JP precinct, a County Criminal Court, or a felony district court — that single fact fixes the procedure and the clerk you will deal with.
2. Confirm the charge, the bond, and any no-bond hold. Check the underlying citation or cause number, the bond amount already set, and whether a hold blocks a routine bond before you act.
3. Pick a path with a lawyer: post a bond at the Lon Evans bond desk for a setting, file a motion to recall, or satisfy the fine on a Class C case — the right move depends on the warrant type and why it issued.
4. Appear on the scheduled date with the bond or resolution in place. Show up at the correct Tarrant County court — for most jailable cases, the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center — with the bond posted or the matter resolved, so the court recalls the warrant.

For the full walk-through, see how to lift a warrant and weigh your choices in bond vs. surrender.

How a lawyer helps in Tarrant County

A Tarrant County defense lawyer can confirm the warrant, name the issuing court, arrange a walk-through bond where one is available, file a motion to recall, and stand with you to resolve the underlying case. The aim is to swap a surprise arrest for a scheduled appearance you control.

L and L Law Group is a Frisco criminal-defense firm led by Co-Founding Partners Reggie London and Njeri London, and the firm handles warrant matters in Tarrant County courts — the felony district and County Criminal Courts at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in Fort Worth, the eight JP precincts, and the Arlington, Hurst, and other city courts. When you are ready, the firm can verify the warrant, estimate the likely bond, line up release at the Lon Evans bond desk in advance, and appear with you at the courthouse. Learn more about the L&L Law Group team, or read about this resource.

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Tarrant County warrant FAQ

This page is general legal information about Texas law, not legal advice for your specific situation. Judges are elected and benches were on the November 2026 ballot, so confirm the current judge with the live county page or the txcourts.gov directory; statutes and court procedures also change — verify current requirements with the relevant court or a licensed Texas attorney. Last reviewed June 22, 2026.