Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2024. 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 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Bullhead City, Arizona, in Mohave County, has about 43,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Mohave County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Bullhead City public records, Mohave County arrest records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Bullhead City
The FBI lists Bullhead City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bullhead City Police Department. It reported 1,643 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,668 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Mohave County: Mohave County Parks Department, Park Rangers (other).
How Many Arrests Bullhead City Reports
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.
- Bullhead City: 1,643 for 2024, 1,477 for 2023, 2,009 for 2020 and 3,498 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Bullhead City's 1,643 arrests in 2024 were up 11 percent from 1,477 in 2023.
Across Mohave County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,916 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bullhead City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bullhead City 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 430 people, down from about 560 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 708 beds, and it ran at 60 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 Mohave County Sheriff's Office at mohave.gov/departments/sheriff/jail (page title: Jail | Mohave County), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry lists its inmates at corrections.az.gov/inmate-data-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bullhead City
Whether someone was arrested in Bullhead City, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Mohave County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mohavecourts.com); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mohave.gov/departments/county-attorney, phone (928) 753-0719).
Statewide, Public Access to Court Information is the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own.
Arizona does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Bullhead City
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 Arizona Public Records Law the agency must answer promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute, and it may charge the cost of copies, and more for commercial requests.
- An arrest by the Bullhead City police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at bullheadcityaz.gov/public-safety/bullhead-city-police-department (page title: Bullhead City Police Department | Bullhead City), phone (928) 763-9200, 1255 Marina Boulevard Bullhead City, AZ 86442, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (928) 753-0719, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Mohave County Superior Court, through the court records page at mohavecourts.com.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mohave.gov (page title: Request Public Records | Mohave County).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
The Mohave County guide covers every agency in the county: Mohave County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bullhead City each year?
Bullhead City reported 1,643 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bullhead City?
Ask the Mohave County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at mohave.gov/departments/sheriff/jail.
Where are people arrested in Bullhead City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bullhead City?
The court files of criminal cases in the Mohave County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arizona Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Bullhead City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bullhead City police for its own arrests, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Arizona Public Records Law the answer is due promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mohave.gov.
Is this the official Bullhead City website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.