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 26, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Thatcher, Arizona, in Graham County, has about 5,600 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 Graham 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: Thatcher public records, Graham County arrest records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Thatcher
The FBI lists Thatcher with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Thatcher Police Department. It reported 154 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 Graham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 411 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Thatcher 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.
- Thatcher: 154 for 2024, 106 for 2023, 132 for 2022 and 150 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Thatcher's 154 arrests in 2024 were up 45 percent from 106 in 2023.
Across Graham County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 805 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Thatcher Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Thatcher 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 140 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 365 beds, and it ran at 37 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 Graham County Sheriff's Office at graham.az.gov/DocumentCenter/View/502/Booking-Roster-PDF (page title: 9-2-24 | Inmate List), 921 W Thatcher Boulevard Safford, AZ 85546, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 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 Thatcher
Whether someone was arrested in Thatcher, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Graham County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; Public Access to Court Information, the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Thatcher
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 Thatcher police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at thatcher.az.gov/departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | Thatcher AZ), phone 928-428-2296, 3700 W. Main St. Thatcher, AZ 85552, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Graham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
The Graham County guide covers every agency in the county: Graham County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Thatcher each year?
Thatcher reported 154 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Thatcher booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Graham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Thatcher?
The court files of criminal cases in the Graham 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 Thatcher?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Thatcher police for its own arrests, the Graham 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 Thatcher 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.