Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 24, 2026.
Arkansas County, Arkansas, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Arkansas County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and one state agency. An arrest 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 Arkansas County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Arkansas County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Arkansas County
The Arkansas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Arkansas County. It reported 53 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Stuttgart, 7,638 residents: 202 arrests reported for 2025.
- DeWitt, 2,844 residents: 115 arrests reported for 2024.
- Gillett, 610 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Humphrey, 441 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- St. Charles, 191 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Arkansas County: the State Park at Arkansas Post Museum State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Arkansas County
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.
- Stuttgart: 202 for 2025, 201 for 2024, 333 for 2023, 228 for 2022, 287 for 2021 and 322 for 2020.
- Arkansas County Sheriff's Office: 53 for 2025, 80 for 2024, 76 for 2023, 68 for 2022, 70 for 2021 and 56 for 2020.
- Gillett: 2 for 2025, 6 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 2 for 2021 and 17 for 2020.
- St. Charles: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 3 for 2021 and 22 for 2020.
- Humphrey: 1 for 2025, 1 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- DeWitt: 115 for 2024, 113 for 2023, 95 for 2022, 119 for 2021, 85 for 2020 and 148 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 259 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 259 in 2025 against 288 in 2024, down 10 percent.
DeWitt reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Arkansas County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Arkansas County 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 2019 the jail held about 80 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 90 beds, and it ran at 89 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Arkansas Division of Correction lists its inmates at doc.arkansas.gov/correction/online-services.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Arkansas County
Whether someone was arrested in Arkansas County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Arkansas 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); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at arcourts.gov/circuit/?q=prosecuting-attorney, phone 870-261-1747).
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 Arkansas County
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 Arkansas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Stuttgart, DeWitt, Gillett, Humphrey or St. Charles: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Park at Arkansas Post Museum State Park: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 870-261-1747, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Arkansas 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.
Cities in Arkansas County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the six cities in Arkansas County: Stuttgart, DeWitt, Gillett, Humphrey and St. Charles. Almyra has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Arkansas County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Arkansas County each year?
Stuttgart reported 202 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 259 between them.
Where are people arrested in Arkansas County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Arkansas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Arkansas County?
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 Arkansas County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Arkansas County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Arkansas County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.