Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Gila County, Arizona, has about 54,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gila County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. An arrest 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 Gila County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Gila County public records, Arizona arrest records, Arizona inmate search and Arizona criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gila County
The Gila County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gila County. It reported 849 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Gila County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Payson, 16,762 residents: 674 arrests reported for 2025.
- Globe, 7,176 residents: 457 arrests reported for 2025.
- Miami, 1,531 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2024.
- Hayden, 513 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
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 Gila County
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.
- Gila County Sheriff's Office: 849 for 2025, 587 for 2024, 529 for 2023, 1,246 for 2022, 1,251 for 2020 and 1,502 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Payson: 674 for 2025, 632 for 2024, 771 for 2023, 804 for 2022, 870 for 2021 and 907 for 2020.
- Globe: 457 for 2025, 595 for 2024, 564 for 2023, 802 for 2022, 825 for 2020 and 1,135 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Miami: 20 for 2024, 63 for 2022 and 91 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- Hayden: 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,980 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,131 in 2025 against 1,227 in 2024, down 7.8 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,133 arrests, against 1,143 in the same months of 2025.
Miami reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gila County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Gila 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 2019 the jail held about 150 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 252 beds, and it ran at 58 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 Gila County Sheriff's Office at gilacountyaz.gov/government/sheriff/detention_bureau.php (page title: GIla County Sheriff Jail Bureau), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Gila County
Whether someone was arrested in Gila County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Gila 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 gilacountyaz.gov/government/county_attorney/index.php, phone (928) 402-8630).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at gilacountyaz.gov/government/courts/index.php (page title: Welcome to the Gila County Courts), phone 844-310-0743, belongs to a lower court, not to the Gila 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 Gila 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 Gila County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Payson, Globe, Miami or Hayden: 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, (928) 402-8630, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Gila County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at gilacountyaz.gov/government/courts/index.php, phone 844-310-0743, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gilacountyaz.gov (page title: Gila County Clerk of the Board | Public Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Gila County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the six cities in Gila County: Payson, Globe, Miami and Hayden. Star Valley and Winkelman have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Gila County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Gila County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Payson (16,762)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gila County each year?
The Gila County Sheriff's Office reported 849 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,980 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gila County?
Ask the Gila County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gilacountyaz.gov.
Where are people arrested in Gila County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gila County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gila County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Gila 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 Gila County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gila 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gilacountyaz.gov.
Is this the official Gila 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.