Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Bentonville, Arkansas, in Benton County, has about 62,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Benton County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Bentonville public records, Benton County arrest records, Arkansas arrest records and Arkansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Bentonville
The FBI lists Bentonville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bentonville Police Department. It reported 3,087 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Benton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 746 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Benton County: the State Park at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area (state agency); Northwest Arkansas Community College (campus police); Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (other).
How Many Arrests Bentonville Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Bentonville: 3,087 for 2025, 3,074 for 2024, 3,363 for 2023, 3,088 for 2022, 3,257 for 2021 and 2,866 for 2020.
Bentonville's 3,087 arrests in 2025 were up 0.4 percent from 3,074 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Bentonville reported 1,802 arrests, against 1,807 in the same months of 2025.
Across Benton County, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 12,275 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bentonville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bentonville and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2020 the jail held about 480 people, down from about 680 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 669 beds, and it ran at 102 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Benton County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.bentoncountyar.gov/jail-dashboard (page title: Jail Dashboard | Benton County Sheriff's Office), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Arkansas Division of Correction, whose inmate locator is at doc.arkansas.gov/correction/online-services.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bentonville
For Bentonville the place to look is CourtConnect, the Arkansas Judiciary's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
Arkansas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public, through the Arkansas State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Bentonville
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Bentonville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at bentonville.ar.gov/398/Records (page title: Records | Bentonville, AR), phone 479-271-5900, 908 SE 14th Street Bentonville, AR 72712, Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Benton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
The Benton County guide covers every agency in the county: Benton County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bentonville each year?
Bentonville reported 3,087 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Bentonville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Benton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bentonville?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Arkansas State Police: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Bentonville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bentonville police for its own arrests, the Benton County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Bentonville website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.