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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Cabot, Arkansas, in Lonoke County, has about 28,000 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 Lonoke 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: Cabot public records, Lonoke County arrest records, Arkansas arrest records and Arkansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cabot
The FBI lists Cabot with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cabot Police Department. It reported 660 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 Lonoke County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 445 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Lonoke County: the State Park at Plum Bayou Mounds Archaeological State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Cabot Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Cabot: 660 for 2025, 455 for 2024, 473 for 2023, 518 for 2022, 505 for 2021 and 414 for 2020.
Cabot's 660 arrests in 2025 were up 45 percent from 455 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Cabot reported 352 arrests, against 347 in the same months of 2025.
Across Lonoke County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,454 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cabot Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cabot is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2020 the jail held about 230 people, up from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 148 beds, and it ran at 99 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Cabot
For Cabot the place to look is the case index of the Lonoke County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at caseinfo.arcourts.gov/opad).
Statewide, CourtConnect is the Arkansas Judiciary's free statewide case search.
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 Cabot
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 Cabot police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cabotar.gov/163/Police (page title: Police | Cabot, AR), phone 501-843-6526, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Lonoke County Circuit Court, through the court records page at caseinfo.arcourts.gov/opad.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
The Lonoke County guide covers every agency in the county: Lonoke County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cabot each year?
Cabot reported 660 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Cabot booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cabot?
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 Cabot?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cabot police for its own arrests, the Lonoke 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 Cabot 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.