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 2025. 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.
Maricopa, Arizona, in Pinal County, has about 77,000 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 Pinal 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: Maricopa public records, Pinal County arrest records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Maricopa
The FBI lists Maricopa with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Maricopa Police Department. It reported 1,503 arrests for 2025. 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 Pinal County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,263 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Pinal County: Central Arizona College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Maricopa 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.
- Maricopa: 1,503 for 2025, 1,527 for 2024, 1,658 for 2023, 1,458 for 2022, 1,151 for 2021 and 1,601 for 2020.
Maricopa's 1,503 arrests in 2025 were down 1.6 percent from 1,527 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Maricopa reported 1,320 arrests, against 944 in the same months of 2025.
Across Pinal County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 8,957 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Maricopa Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Maricopa 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 2023 the jail held about 520 people, down from about 560 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,029 beds, and it ran at 51 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 Pinal County Sheriff's Office at app1.pinal.gov/search/inmate-search.aspx (page title: Pinal County Sheriff Inmate Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 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 Maricopa
Whether someone was arrested in Maricopa, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Pinal County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at pinalcourtsaz.gov/222/Court-Records-Request); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pinal.gov/1676/County-Attorney).
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 Maricopa
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Maricopa police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at maricopa-az.gov/Departments/Police-Department/Support-Services/Poli... (page title: Police Records | City of Maricopa, AZ), phone (520)316-6918, Monday through Thursday 7 am to 6 pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Pinal County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pinal County Superior Court, through the court records page at pinalcourtsaz.gov/222/Court-Records-Request.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at pinal.gov/293/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Pinal County, AZ).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
The Pinal County guide covers every agency in the county: Pinal County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Maricopa each year?
Maricopa reported 1,503 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Maricopa?
Look on the custody page of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office at app1.pinal.gov/search/inmate-search.aspx. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Maricopa booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pinal County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Maricopa?
The court files of criminal cases in the Pinal 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 Maricopa?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Maricopa police for its own arrests, the Pinal 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 pinal.gov/293/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official Maricopa 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.