SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Benton County, Arkansas, has about 322,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Benton County Sheriff's Office, 14 city agencies and three campus, state or other agencies. 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 Benton 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: Benton County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Benton County

The Benton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Benton County. It reported 746 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 14 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, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Rogers, 75,639 residents: 4,709 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Bentonville, 61,791 residents: 3,087 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Bella Vista, 33,274 residents: 556 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Centerton, 25,745 residents: 203 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Siloam Springs, 20,075 residents: 798 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lowell, 11,568 residents: 1,113 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Pea Ridge, 10,190 residents: 383 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Cave Springs, 6,304 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Gentry, 4,672 residents: 138 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Gravette, 3,826 residents: 97 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Little Flock, 3,040 residents: 296 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Highfill, 2,793 residents: 60 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 Springdale Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Benton County, so its arrests are not broken out for Benton County here.

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 Each Agency Reports in Benton County

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.

  • Rogers: 4,709 for 2025, 4,319 for 2024, 4,814 for 2023, 4,335 for 2022, 4,171 for 2021 and 4,150 for 2020.
  • 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.
  • Lowell: 1,113 for 2025, 1,074 for 2024, 1,361 for 2023, 789 for 2021 and 367 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Siloam Springs: 798 for 2025, 818 for 2024, 850 for 2023, 964 for 2022, 961 for 2021 and 952 for 2020.
  • Benton County Sheriff's Office: 746 for 2025, 816 for 2024, 818 for 2023, 761 for 2022, 843 for 2021 and 1,258 for 2020.
  • Bella Vista: 556 for 2025, 511 for 2024, 539 for 2023, 577 for 2022, 682 for 2021 and 762 for 2020.
  • Pea Ridge: 383 for 2025, 274 for 2024, 245 for 2023, 230 for 2022, 245 for 2021 and 304 for 2020.
  • Little Flock: 296 for 2025, 437 for 2024, 545 for 2023, 525 for 2022, 331 for 2021 and 240 for 2020.
  • Centerton: 203 for 2025, 209 for 2024, 192 for 2023, 262 for 2022 and 493 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
  • Gentry: 138 for 2025, 147 for 2024, 130 for 2023, 176 for 2022, 172 for 2021 and 99 for 2020.
  • Gravette: 97 for 2025, 116 for 2024, 161 for 2023, 194 for 2022, 229 for 2021 and 209 for 2020.
  • Decatur: 73 for 2025, 115 for 2024, 111 for 2023, 121 for 2022, 114 for 2021 and 113 for 2020.

Together, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 12,275 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 12,275 in 2025 against 11,977 in 2024, up 2.5 percent.

Through May 2026, the 11 agencies with every month so far on file reported 3,003 arrests, against 2,877 in the same months of 2025.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Benton County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Benton 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 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 Benton County

For Benton County 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 Benton 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 Benton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Rogers, Bentonville, Bella Vista, Centerton, Siloam Springs, Lowell or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by the State Park at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area, Northwest Arkansas Community College or Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport: the records office of the agency involved.
  • Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.

Cities in Benton County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 14 of the 18 cities in Benton County: the twelve named above and Decatur and Sulphur Springs. Garfield, Avoca, Gateway and Springtown have 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 Benton County Circuit Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Benton County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Benton County each year?

Rogers reported 4,709 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 14 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 12,275 between them.

Where are people arrested in Benton County 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 Benton 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 Benton County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Benton 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 Benton 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.