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.
Sevier County, Arkansas, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sevier County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Sevier 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: Sevier County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sevier County
The Sevier County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sevier County. It reported 75 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Sevier County with a reporting agency of its own:
- De Queen, 6,069 residents: 154 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sevier 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.
- De Queen: 154 for 2025, 181 for 2024, 174 for 2023, 182 for 2022, 141 for 2021 and 175 for 2020.
- Sevier County Sheriff's Office: 75 for 2025, 57 for 2024, 51 for 2023, 53 for 2022, 40 for 2021 and 47 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 229 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 229 in 2025 against 238 in 2024, down 3.8 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sevier County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Sevier 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 65 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 74 beds, and it ran at 88 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 Sevier County Sheriff's Office at seviersheriffar.org/inmateSearch (page title: Sevier County Sheriff’s Office), 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 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 Sevier County
Whether someone was arrested in Sevier County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Sevier County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Sevier County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at seviercountyar.org/government/departments/circuit-clerk, phone 870-584-3055).
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 Sevier 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 Sevier County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in De Queen: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sevier County Circuit Court, through the court records page at seviercountyar.org, phone 870-584-3055.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
Cities in Sevier County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Sevier County: De Queen. Horatio, Lockesburg, Gillham and Ben Lomond 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 Sevier County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sevier County each year?
De Queen reported 154 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 229 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sevier County?
Look on the custody page of the Sevier County Sheriff's Office at seviersheriffar.org/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Sevier County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sevier County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sevier 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 Sevier County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sevier 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 Sevier 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.