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 October 4, 2026.
Stone County, Arkansas, has about 13,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Stone County Sheriff's Office, one city agency 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 Stone 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: Stone County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Stone County
The Stone County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Stone County. It reported 158 arrests for 2025.
One city in Stone County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Mountain View, 2,950 residents: 62 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 Stone County: the State Park at Ozark Folk Center State Park (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Stone 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.
- Stone County Sheriff's Office: 158 for 2025, 165 for 2024, 115 for 2023 and 93 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
- Mountain View: 62 for 2025, 64 for 2024, 100 for 2023, 99 for 2022, 74 for 2021 and 110 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 220 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 220 in 2025 against 229 in 2024, down 3.9 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 129 arrests, against 113 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Stone County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Stone 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 51 people, up from about 43 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 39 beds, and it ran at 110 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 Stone County Sheriff's Office at stonecountysheriff.com (page title: Stone County AR Sheriff's Office), phone 870-269-3825, 1009 Sheriffs Drive Mountain View, AR 72560, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Stone County
For Stone 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 Stone 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 Stone County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 870-269-3825.
- An arrest in Mountain View: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Park at Ozark Folk Center State Park: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
Cities in Stone County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Stone County: Mountain View. Fifty-Six has 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 Stone County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Stone County each year?
The Stone County Sheriff's Office reported 158 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 220 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Stone County?
Ask the Stone County Sheriff's Office at 870-269-3825; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at stonecountysheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Stone County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Stone County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Stone 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 Stone County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Stone 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 Stone 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.