Cochise County Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Cochise County

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cochise County. It reported 1,111 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside seven of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:

• Sierra Vista, 44,710 residents: 1,942 arrests reported for 2025.
• Douglas, 15,819 residents: 582 arrests reported for 2025.
• Benson, 5,499 residents: 43 arrests reported for 2023.
• Bisbee, 4,957 residents: 150 arrests reported for 2025.
• Willcox, 3,217 residents: 201 arrests reported for 2025.
• Huachuca City, 1,604 residents: 63 arrests reported for 2025.
• Tombstone, 1,382 residents: 59 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.

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cochise 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.

• Sierra Vista: 1,942 for 2025, 1,946 for 2024, 1,775 for 2023, 1,987 for 2022, 1,491 for 2021 and 2,605 for 2020.
• Cochise County Sheriff's Office: 1,111 for 2025, 1,147 for 2024, 957 for 2023, 1,018 for 2022, 1,137 for 2021 and 1,933 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
• Douglas: 582 for 2025, 630 for 2024, 694 for 2023, 726 for 2021, 703 for 2020 and 960 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
• Willcox: 201 for 2025, 212 for 2024, 201 for 2023, 296 for 2022, 328 for 2021 and 447 for 2020.
• Bisbee: 150 for 2025, 115 for 2024, 108 for 2023, 110 for 2022 and 133 for 2021.
• Huachuca City: 63 for 2025, 28 for 2024, 17 for 2023, 45 for 2022, 70 for 2021 and 52 for 2020.
• Tombstone: 59 for 2025, 91 for 2023, 62 for 2022 and 85 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
• Benson: 43 for 2023 and 76 for 2022.

Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,108 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 4,049 in 2025 against 4,078 in 2024, down 0.7 percent.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Cochise County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cochise 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 2020 the jail held about 190 people, down from about 260 in 2019. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Cochise County Sheriff's Office at cochise.az.gov/414/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Cochise County, AZ), phone 520-432-7540, 205 N Judd Drive Mile Post 345, Highway 80 Bisbee, AZ 85603, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 am -2:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Cochise County

Whether someone was arrested in Cochise County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Cochise County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cochise.az.gov/191/Requesting-Copies-of-Court-Documents); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cochise.az.gov/193/County-Attorney, phone 520.432-8700).

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 Cochise County

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 Cochise County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 520-432-7540.
• An arrest in Sierra Vista, Douglas, Benson, Bisbee, Willcox, Huachuca City or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 520.432-8700, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Cochise County Superior Court, through the court records page at cochise.az.gov.
• Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Cochise County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the seven cities in Cochise County: Sierra Vista, Douglas, Benson, Bisbee, Willcox, Huachuca City and Tombstone.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Cochise County Superior Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cochise County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

• Sierra Vista (44,710)
• Douglas (15,819)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Cochise County each year?

Sierra Vista reported 1,942 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 4,108 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cochise County?

Ask the Cochise County Sheriff's Office at 520-432-7540; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cochise.az.gov/414/Sheriff.

Where are people arrested in Cochise County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cochise County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Cochise County?

The court files of criminal cases in the Cochise 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 Cochise County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Cochise County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Arizona Public Records Law the answer is due promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute.

Is this the official Cochise 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.