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 October 2, 2026.
Lonoke County, Arkansas, has about 76,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office, six 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 Lonoke 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: Lonoke County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lonoke County
The Lonoke County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lonoke County. It reported 445 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six 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:
- Cabot, 27,575 residents: 660 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ward, 7,022 residents: 129 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lonoke, 4,287 residents: 84 arrests reported for 2025.
- Austin, 4,027 residents: 68 arrests reported for 2025.
- England, 2,427 residents: 93 arrests reported for 2024.
- Carlisle, 1,973 residents: 68 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 Lonoke County: the State Park at Plum Bayou Mounds Archaeological State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Lonoke 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.
- Cabot: 660 for 2025, 455 for 2024, 473 for 2023, 518 for 2022, 505 for 2021 and 414 for 2020.
- Lonoke County Sheriff's Office: 445 for 2025, 316 for 2024, 279 for 2023, 163 for 2022, 220 for 2021 and 303 for 2020.
- Ward: 129 for 2025, 145 for 2024, 109 for 2023, 145 for 2022, 140 for 2021 and 122 for 2020.
- Lonoke: 84 for 2025, 145 for 2024, 206 for 2023, 130 for 2022, 250 for 2021 and 229 for 2020.
- Austin: 68 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 27 for 2023, 12 for 2022, 21 for 2021 and 45 for 2020.
- Carlisle: 68 for 2025, 113 for 2024, 140 for 2023, 124 for 2022, 93 for 2021 and 70 for 2020.
- England: 93 for 2024, 63 for 2021 and 106 for 2019; 2020, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,454 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 794 in 2025 against 765 in 2024, up 3.8 percent.
Through June 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 663 arrests, against 656 in the same months of 2025.
England reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lonoke County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Lonoke County 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 Lonoke County
For Lonoke County 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 Lonoke 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 Lonoke County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Cabot, Ward, Lonoke, Austin, England or Carlisle: 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 Plum Bayou Mounds Archaeological State Park: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Lonoke County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the ten cities in Lonoke County: Cabot, Ward, Lonoke, Austin, England and Carlisle. Humnoke, Keo, Allport and Coy 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 Lonoke County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Lonoke County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Cabot (27,575)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lonoke County each year?
Cabot reported 660 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,454 between them.
Where are people arrested in Lonoke County 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 Lonoke 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 Lonoke County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lonoke 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 Lonoke 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.