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How Bellaire Arrests Work

The Bellaire Police Department calls itself a full-service village force, and its officers write the incident reports. Booking is a different animal. When someone lands in county custody, the Antrim County Sheriff's Office and Correctional Facility create their own jail records. One request will rarely fetch both sets.

The Michigan Manual's 2020 Census table puts Bellaire at 1,053 residents, the third place in this city set and the county seat. There is no public city jail roster here. A person can be cited and released, held somewhere else, or transferred later. Confirm the arresting agency first, then the custodian.

Where Bellaire Busted Mugshots Appear

Bellaire has no public booking-photo page. Antrim County does not run a searchable arrest roster or photo feed either. Smaller, narrower channels remain, and each one plays a distinct part in the hunt for a busted mugshot.

Keep expectations in check. A missing name proves nothing on its own. Someone might have been cited and released, booked somewhere else, added too recently to show up, or simply left out of a given service's coverage.

Finding Who Was Busted in Bellaire

Skip the hunt for a gallery that local agencies never publish. A focused record search works far better.

1. Confirm the full name, date range, and likely arresting agency.
2. Ask Village police or the Clerk for the incident report.
3. Use VINE or call the jail at 231-533-8627 for urgent custody status.
4. Ask the Sheriff for a booking card or photo, if retained and releasable.
5. Check MiCOURT or the court clerk for the case disposition.

The Antrim County booking guide walks the whole county path, from FOIA requests to custody checks. One wrinkle worth knowing: release can shut off a live custody signal while the incident report, booking details, and court file all live on.

Bellaire Police Arrest Records

Official Village records sit with Clerk Angela St. Pierre, who also handles FOIA requests. Her Clerk page posts the procedure, the form, and the cost-estimate materials. When you write, describe the incident you know. Include the full name, the date, the location, the record type, and a report number if you have one.

Split the request by custodian. Village police hold the incident file. The Sheriff holds county intake records and booking photos. If the first office you contact did not create or keep the item, ask for a referral rather than starting over.

When Bellaire Mugshots Surface

Antrim County has no documented same-day or multi-day arrest feed, no photo schedule, and no stated retention window. The Sheriff tends to announce arrests selectively and hold back names until arraignment. So do not wait around for an upload that may never come. File a named FOIA request instead.

Give the Sheriff a full name, the date, the arresting agency, and a booking or case number when you have it. Ask three things: whether a photograph was taken, whether it is still retained, and whether it can be released. VINE can alert you to custody changes where supported, but it stores no mugshots.

Bellaire Busted Mugshots in News

The Antrim Review and 9&10 News cover selected county events, though neither amounts to a full Bellaire arrest list. Mugshots.com keeps an unofficial Antrim section with historical filters, yet an entry there says nothing about current custody or how a case ended. No verified Antrim page exists for BustedNewspaper, RecentlyBooked, Arrests.org, or Mugshots.zone. JailExchange is unofficial too, and it cannot fill the gap left by the missing official roster.

Treat any article as a lead. Then confirm the police file, the county booking, and the court result. The Crime News guide lays out that sequence.

Bellaire Booking Status Changes

A fresh arrest can end two ways: a citation, or a trip to the county jail. While someone is in custody, VINE or a call to the jail can locate them. After release, that status often disappears even though the government still holds the underlying records. A state sentence moves a person into the Michigan Department of Corrections OTIS system, which tracks prison populations rather than fresh arrests. Federal and immigration custody run on their own locators.

Inside the Correctional Facility, staff use Guardian RFID, but that tool is not public. The same goes for CIDNET, JailATM, and Stellar Teller. Those are inmate services, not booking-photo searches. Match the tool to the stage of custody, and verify anything a third-party site tells you.

Bellaire Busted Record Custodians

Bellaire's county-seat status packs several offices into one small village, but their records stay separate. Bellaire Police creates the village incident records. The Sheriff's Office controls county law-enforcement files and FOIA responses. The Correctional Facility holds jail intake and custody material. The 86th District Court keeps its own case file. A newspaper can report facts from all of them without becoming a custodian of anything.

That four-way split shapes any search for who was busted in Bellaire. Incident reports go to the Village. Booking cards and photographs go to the Sheriff. Live custody questions go to the jail or the official VINE service. A charge's later status belongs to the court. Ask one office for everything and you invite delay.

Bellaire Police calls itself a full-service department under Chief Jesse Fisher. Its offices sit in Community Hall at 202 N. Bridge Street, and non-emergency calls route through Antrim County Central Dispatch at 231-533-8627 extension 0. The official police page was updated July 28, 2026, and still lists no daily blotter, booking-photo feed, or recent-arrest window.

Bellaire Busted Records FOIA

Village Clerk Angela St. Pierre is the official-records contact for Bellaire. Her office answers FOIA requests and keeps records under a State-approved retention schedule. Hours run Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Want a specific Bellaire Police incident report? Put the name, date range, location, and report number in the request if you have them.

The Village fee schedule dates to 2017, and it shows its age. Outside FOIA, a police report costs $5. FOIA labor runs $22.52 per hour. Letter- or legal-size pages cost $0.05 each. Other paper is billed at actual cost, and mailing terms are separate. Confirm every figure with the office first. An eight-year-old sheet is not a guaranteed bill.

None of those Village rates apply to a Sheriff booking request. The Sheriff runs its own FOIA process from 209 Portage Drive. The jail sits at 207 E. Cayuga Street. For a booking image, name the person, booking date, arresting agency, and case or booking number. Ask whether the photo is retained and releasable. That works better than requesting a broad gallery.

Note: Confirm Bellaire’s dated fee schedule and the correct custodian before submitting or paying for any record request.

Bellaire Mugshots and Court Context

The Antrim Review matters most for Bellaire readers, since its office sits in the village and its weekly coverage sweeps the county. Its Sheriff tag gathers articles, not every arrest. A story can point you to an agency, a date, or a charge, but it cannot stand in for the incident report, the jail record, or the court file.

County-seat geography creates one trap. A county story can look like a Bellaire arrest when Bellaire was only the seat of the jail, the Sheriff's office, or the court. Check where the event happened and which agency made the arrest before sending a Village request. Mugshots.com's Antrim section has the same issue: it is countywide and unofficial, and an entry there never becomes a Bellaire Police record just because the county offices share the village.

For the final word, carry a booking lead into MiCOURT or to the right clerk. Nonpublic, juvenile, and confidential matters may stay off the web, and the 86th District Court has reported a temporary interruption in online criminal-case extraction during records reconciliation. If the web comes up empty, call the clerk.

Bellaire Arrest Records by Address

Three Bellaire addresses sort out the record holders. Bellaire Police works out of Community Hall at 202 N. Bridge Street. The Antrim County Sheriff's Office is at 209 Portage Drive, Suite A, and the Correctional Facility sits at 207 E. Cayuga Street. They sit close together in the county seat, but they are not one records counter. Aim a request at the right address and skip the transfers.

For the Police Department, call 231-533-5678, fax 231-533-8753, or email Chief Jesse Fisher at jfisher@bellairemichigan.com. Village Clerk Angela St. Pierre can be reached at 231-533-8213 or vlgclerk@bellairemichigan.com. Her Monday-through-Thursday hours govern Village administration, not the jail, which the county describes as staffed around the clock.

Sheriff and jail share one main line, 231-533-8627, but their other routes differ. The Sheriff lists sheriff@antrimcountymi.gov and fax 231-533-5803. The jail lists jail@antrimcountymi.gov and fax 231-533-8166. Send a booking-photo or booking-card request through the Sheriff's FOIA process; take urgent facility questions straight to the jail.

That dated 2017 fee sheet draws one more boundary. Its police-report and FOIA amounts cover Bellaire Village records alone and need current confirmation. They set nothing for the Sheriff. A request stays clear when it states plainly whether it seeks the Bellaire Police incident report, a jail intake record, a booking photo, or the court file.

News phrasing deserves the same care. Someone can be described as lodged "in Bellaire" because the county jail is there, even when another agency made the arrest elsewhere. A Bellaire Police incident can also close without any county jail intake. So confirm the arrest location, the arresting agency, and the custody stop before assuming which office holds the record.