The Nantucket County Most Wanted Program
Most counties run a most wanted program through the sheriff's office, sometimes with Crime Stoppers as a partner. Nantucket County does neither. What the sheriff actually publishes is practical material: contact information, program descriptions, alerts, downloadable forms, and an outline of services. A wanted-persons page or warrant roster appears nowhere in it. So if a site claims to be an official Nantucket County wanted list, check it against the official sheriff's site before trusting a single name. The sheriff's own pages are the reliable yardstick, and they publish no roster at all.
No Official Nantucket Most Wanted Roster Was Located
Nantucket County posts no wanted roster of its own. The sheriff's homepage, the police department's pages, the town records pages, and the Trial Court pages all skip the subject, linking no active-warrant list, no most wanted page, and nothing to download. What those offices do publish appears on their own sites.
The Nantucket County Sheriff's Office page would carry the announcement if a program existed. Instead it describes transport, process service, and public assistance.
How Nantucket Most Wanted Lists Work
Where a most wanted program does exist, a name gets added when an agency decides an outstanding warrant deserves public attention. It comes off when the person is arrested, surrenders, or the warrant is recalled. Every such list is a snapshot with a publication date behind it, never a live mirror of the docket. Two Nantucket County rules follow. A name can linger on a page after the warrant is already gone. A warrant can also exist without ever making any list at all. So the presence or absence of a name settles nothing, and only the issuing court can confirm what is actually open. Treat any Nantucket County list you find as a starting point, never an answer.
Nantucket Tips Versus Court Status Confirmation
The Nantucket County police tip line at 508-228-3626 is for reporting activity or a person, not for asking whether someone has a warrant. A status question belongs with the court that issued the paper. Keeping the two apart matters. It protects the tip channel for real public safety calls, and it keeps a Nantucket County records question from bouncing between offices before it lands with the clerk who can actually answer it. Call the court about status. Call the tip line about crime. That division saves everyone time.
How to Report a Tip Safely
If you hold information that could help a Nantucket County investigation, report it through the police tip line. Then step back and let officers handle the rest. Never confront anyone yourself.
- Use the Nantucket Police Department tip line or the department directory rather than a personal contact.
- Give the Nantucket location, the time, and what you observed, and note any reference number you are given.
- Never approach, follow, or try to detain anyone yourself.
- Follow up with the Nantucket reference number if you need to confirm the tip was received.
Key Point: Nantucket County has no Crime Stoppers chapter or published reward policy, so treat any caller's promise of cash as unverified until the police confirm it.
Federal Task Force Versus Nantucket Publication
The U.S. Marshals district office covers all of Massachusetts, this island included, and coordinates a multiagency fugitive task force. That is a federal program with its own contacts and its own casework, not a Nantucket County warrant list. Its material should never be read as one. Federal dockets are a separate system again, and the PACER fee information explains what that federal search costs and where its limits sit.
A federal warrant can also be sealed before service in Nantucket County or anywhere else, which keeps it out of public view entirely.
Nantucket Most Wanted vs an Active Warrant
A curated Nantucket County list and a complete caseload are different things. A name on a public list is a small slice of what exists, and only the issuing court sees the whole picture.
| Point | Most Wanted List | Active Warrant |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | A small, selected group | Every warrant that has not been served or cleared |
| Who publishes it | The Nantucket agency that runs the program | The Nantucket court file, and the state system for authorized users |
| Public visibility | Publicity chosen by the agency | Limited public docket information at most |
| How it ends | Arrest, surrender, or recall | Service, recall, or discharge |
What to Do if a Caller Claims a Nantucket Warrant
The Nantucket County Police Department warned in January 2025 about a caller posing as a lieutenant or a sheriff's court services employee and demanding payment over tickets, warrants, or court appearances. The advice was simple: hang up and call 508-228-1212. Court fees go to a court. No legitimate office takes gift cards, cryptocurrency, wire transfers, or payment apps. Verify every contact through a number you looked up yourself.
If You Believe You Are on a List
Confirm the case before you act. A lawyer can find which Nantucket County court holds the warrant, the charge behind it, and what a surrender or motion would involve. The Massachusetts legal help page covers appointed counsel and referrals.
Important: Do not approach an agency alone or wait to be found. Counsel can arrange a surrender and address bail on your terms.
Nantucket Warrant Recall Happens Without a Public Roster
Recall is a Nantucket County court action. The issuing court removes the warrant and updates the state system. The public list, wherever one exists, follows along later or not at all. On Nantucket there is no list to update, which leaves the court's own record as the only one that counts. Every Nantucket County status question therefore ends in the same place: the clerk who holds the docket. Call that office, not a roster.
The Nantucket Sheriff's Role Is Transport and Process
The Nantucket County Sheriff's Office publishes a clear set of duties: transporting detainees to and from court divisions, moving them to the Barnstable House of Correction by boat or plane, serving judicial and civil process, and assisting the public. Sheriff James A. Perelman has held the office since 2011, according to the state's sheriff page. Warrant publication is not on that list. The office's general line is not a status line either. Records questions belong with the Nantucket County court. Safety questions belong with the police.