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 September 26, 2026.
Mountain Home, Arkansas, in Baxter County, has about 13,000 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 Baxter 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: Mountain Home public records, Baxter County arrest records, Arkansas arrest records and Arkansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Mountain Home
The FBI lists Mountain Home with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Mountain Home Police Department. It reported 877 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 Baxter County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 635 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Baxter County: the State Park at Bull Shoals-White River State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Mountain Home 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.
- Mountain Home: 877 for 2025, 1,059 for 2024, 1,132 for 2023, 972 for 2022, 1,021 for 2021 and 1,071 for 2020.
Mountain Home's 877 arrests in 2025 were down 17 percent from 1,059 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Mountain Home reported 476 arrests, against 504 in the same months of 2025.
Across Baxter County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,599 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mountain Home Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Mountain Home 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 2023 the jail held about 89 people, down from about 110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 170 beds, and it ran at 52 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Baxter County Sheriff's Office at baxtercountysheriff.com/inmate-roster/filters/current/booking_time=... (page title: Inmate Roster | Baxter County Sheriff's Office | Sort Booking Time | Descending | Page 1), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Mountain Home
Whether someone was arrested in Mountain Home, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Baxter County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Baxter 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 Mountain Home
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Mountain Home police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at mountainhomear.gov/forms/freedom-of-information-act-request (page title: Freedom of Information Act Request | City of Mountain Home, Arkansas), phone (870) 425-6336, 650 South Street Mountain Home, AR 72653, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Baxter County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Baxter 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 Baxter County guide covers every agency in the county: Baxter County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mountain Home each year?
Mountain Home reported 877 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Mountain Home?
Look on the custody page of the Baxter County Sheriff's Office at baxtercountysheriff.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Mountain Home booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Baxter County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mountain Home?
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 Mountain Home?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Mountain Home police for its own arrests, the Baxter 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 Mountain Home 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.