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.
Saline County, Arkansas, has about 131,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Saline County Sheriff's Office and five city 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 Saline 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: Saline County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Saline County
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Saline County. It reported 606 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Saline County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Benton, 38,088 residents: 1,485 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bryant, 22,271 residents: 448 arrests reported for 2025.
- Shannon Hills, 4,740 residents: 37 arrests reported for 2025.
- Haskell, 4,279 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2024.
- Alexander, 3,792 residents: 139 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 Hot Springs Village Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Saline County, so its arrests are not broken out for Saline County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Saline 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.
- Benton: 1,485 for 2025, 1,703 for 2024, 1,512 for 2023, 1,329 for 2022, 1,434 for 2021 and 1,351 for 2020.
- Saline County Sheriff's Office: 606 for 2025, 562 for 2024, 553 for 2023, 591 for 2022, 589 for 2021 and 749 for 2020.
- Bryant: 448 for 2025, 507 for 2024, 591 for 2023, 831 for 2022, 751 for 2021 and 668 for 2020.
- Alexander: 139 for 2025, 415 for 2024, 253 for 2023, 189 for 2022, 163 for 2021 and 171 for 2020.
- Shannon Hills: 37 for 2025, 42 for 2024, 77 for 2023, 56 for 2022, 69 for 2021 and 64 for 2020.
- Haskell: 33 for 2024, 41 for 2023, 103 for 2022, 97 for 2021, 29 for 2020 and 45 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,715 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,715 in 2025 against 3,229 in 2024, down 16 percent.
Through June 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,358 arrests, against 1,320 in the same months of 2025.
Haskell reported only part of 2025 (2 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Saline County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Saline 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 2021 the jail held about 170 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 208 beds, and it ran at 85 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 Saline County Sheriff's Office at salinecounty.org/government/sheriff_s_office/inmate_roster.php (page title: Saline County, AR), 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 Saline County
Whether someone was arrested in Saline County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Saline County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Saline 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 salinecounty.org/government/prosecuting_attorney.php, phone (501) 315-7767).
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 Saline 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 Saline County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Benton, Bryant, Shannon Hills, Haskell or Alexander: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (501) 315-7767, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Saline County Circuit Court, through the court records page at caseinfo.arcourts.gov/opad.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at salinecounty.org (page title: Submit a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) Request).
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
Cities in Saline County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the seven cities in Saline County: Benton, Bryant, Shannon Hills, Haskell and Alexander. Bauxite and Traskwood 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 Saline County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Saline 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 Saline County each year?
Benton reported 1,485 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,715 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Saline County?
Look on the custody page of the Saline County Sheriff's Office at salinecounty.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Saline County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Saline County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Saline 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 Saline County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Saline 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 salinecounty.org.
Is this the official Saline 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.