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 28, 2026.
San Luis, Arizona, in Yuma County, has about 40,000 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 Yuma 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: San Luis public records, Yuma County arrest records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in San Luis
The FBI lists San Luis with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as San Luis Police Department. It reported 370 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 Yuma County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 838 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Yuma County: Arizona Western College (campus police).
How Many Arrests San Luis Reports
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.
- San Luis: 370 for 2025, 462 for 2024, 420 for 2023, 440 for 2022, 451 for 2021 and 519 for 2020.
San Luis's 370 arrests in 2025 were down 20 percent from 462 in 2024.
Through July 2026, San Luis reported 225 arrests, against 208 in the same months of 2025.
Across Yuma County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,982 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in San Luis Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in San Luis 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 460 people, down from about 480 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 756 beds, and it ran at 63 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 Yuma County Sheriff's Office at azdps.gov/leosa/1886 (page title: Yuma County Sheriff's Office | Department of Public Safety), phone (928) 783-4427, 141 South 3rd Avenue Yuma, AZ 85364, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, whose inmate locator is at corrections.az.gov/inmate-data-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in San Luis
An arrest in San Luis can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Yuma County Superior Court, kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at yumacountyaz.gov/government/county-attorney, phone (928) 817-4300).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at yumacountyaz.gov/government/courts (page title: Welcome to Yuma County Courts | Yuma County), phone (928) 817-4083, belongs to a lower court, not to the Yuma County Superior Court.
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 San Luis
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 San Luis police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at sanluisaz.gov/departments/city_clerk/public_records_requests (page title: San Luis, AZ), phone 928-341-8520, 1090 E. Union St. San Luis, AZ 85349, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Yuma County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (928) 783-4427.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (928) 817-4300, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Yuma County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at yumacountyaz.gov/government/courts, phone (928) 817-4083, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
The Yuma County guide covers every agency in the county: Yuma County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in San Luis each year?
San Luis reported 370 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in San Luis?
Ask the Yuma County Sheriff's Office at (928) 783-4427; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at azdps.gov/leosa/1886.
Where are people arrested in San Luis booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Yuma County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in San Luis?
The court files of criminal cases in the Yuma 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 San Luis?
From the agency that made the arrest: the San Luis police for its own arrests, the Yuma 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.
Is this the official San Luis 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.