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 between September 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Faulkner County, Arkansas, has about 132,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and two 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 Faulkner 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: Faulkner County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Faulkner County
The Faulkner County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Faulkner County. It reported 625 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:
- Conway, 70,711 residents: 4,183 arrests reported for 2025.
- Greenbrier, 6,330 residents: 141 arrests reported for 2025.
- Vilonia, 4,672 residents: 258 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mayflower, 2,354 residents: 75 arrests reported for 2025.
- Guy, 771 residents: 8 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 Quitman Police Department and the Damascus Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Faulkner County, so their arrests are not broken out for Faulkner County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Faulkner County: the University of Central Arkansas (campus police); the State Park at Woolly Hollow State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Faulkner 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.
- Conway: 4,183 for 2025, 3,862 for 2024, 4,037 for 2023, 3,968 for 2022, 3,128 for 2021 and 2,594 for 2020.
- Faulkner County Sheriff's Office: 625 for 2025, 665 for 2024, 399 for 2022, 362 for 2021, 392 for 2020 and 334 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Vilonia: 258 for 2025, 291 for 2024, 377 for 2023, 454 for 2022, 386 for 2021 and 305 for 2020.
- Greenbrier: 141 for 2025, 165 for 2024, 47 for 2022, 63 for 2021, 72 for 2020 and 91 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Mayflower: 75 for 2025, 119 for 2024, 110 for 2023, 85 for 2022, 97 for 2021 and 68 for 2020.
- Guy: 8 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 3 for 2022 and 12 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,290 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,290 in 2025 against 5,107 in 2024, up 3.6 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Faulkner County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Faulkner 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 2023 the jail held about 500 people, up from about 410 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 440 beds, and it ran at 113 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 Faulkner County Sheriff's Office at faulknercountyar.gov/government/departments-2/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Faulkner County GOV), phone 501-450-4914, 801 Locust Ave. 801 Locust Ave. Conway, AR 72034, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Faulkner County
An arrest in Faulkner County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Faulkner County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at arcourts.gov/taxonomy/term/101); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at faulknercountyar.gov/government/departments-2/prosecuting-attorney, phone 501-450-4927).
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 Faulkner County
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 Faulkner County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 501-450-4914.
- An arrest in Conway, Greenbrier, Vilonia, Mayflower or Guy: 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 University of Central Arkansas or the State Park at Woolly Hollow State Park: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 501-450-4927, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Faulkner County Circuit Court, through the court records page at arcourts.gov/taxonomy/term/101.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at faulknercountyar.nextrequest.com (page title: Freedom of Information RequestsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
Cities in Faulkner County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the ten cities in Faulkner County: Conway, Greenbrier, Vilonia, Mayflower and Guy. Wooster, Holland, Enola, Twin Groves and Mount Vernon 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 Faulkner County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Faulkner County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Conway (70,711)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Faulkner County each year?
Conway reported 4,183 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,290 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Faulkner County?
Ask the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office at 501-450-4914; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at faulknercountyar.gov.
Where are people arrested in Faulkner County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Faulkner 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 Faulkner County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Faulkner 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at faulknercountyar.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Faulkner 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.