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.
La Paz County, Arizona, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the La Paz County Sheriff's Office and two 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 La Paz 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: La Paz County public records, Arizona arrest records, Arizona inmate search and Arizona criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in La Paz County
The La Paz County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for La Paz County. It reported 401 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in La Paz County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Parker, 3,456 residents: 132 arrests reported for 2025.
- Quartzsite, 2,425 residents: 122 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 La Paz 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.
- La Paz County Sheriff's Office: 401 for 2025, 390 for 2023, 446 for 2022, 498 for 2021 and 2,398 for 2019; 2020 and 2024 are missing months.
- Parker: 132 for 2025, 150 for 2024, 146 for 2023, 153 for 2022, 139 for 2021 and 481 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Quartzsite: 122 for 2025, 161 for 2024, 290 for 2023, 122 for 2021 and 104 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 655 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 254 in 2025 against 311 in 2024, down 18 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in La Paz County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in La Paz County 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 2019 the jail held about 150 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 151 beds, and it ran at 97 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 La Paz County Sheriff's Office at lapazsheriff.org/inmate-search (page title: La Paz County Sheriff's Office, AZ), 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 La Paz County
Whether someone was arrested in La Paz County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the La Paz County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the La Paz County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at lapaz.gov/156/Courts, phone (928) 669-6115); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lapaz.gov/154/County-Attorney, phone 928-669-6118).
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 La Paz 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 La Paz County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Parker or Quartzsite: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 928-669-6118, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the La Paz County Superior Court, through the court records page at lapaz.gov/156/Courts, phone (928) 669-6115.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lapaz.gov/622/Public-Records-Requests (page title: Public Records Requests | La Paz County, AZ).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in La Paz County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in La Paz County: Parker and Quartzsite.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the La Paz County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in La Paz County each year?
The La Paz County Sheriff's Office reported 401 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 655 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in La Paz County?
Look on the custody page of the La Paz County Sheriff's Office at lapazsheriff.org/inmate-search. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in La Paz County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the La Paz County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in La Paz County?
The court files of criminal cases in the La Paz 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 La Paz County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the La Paz 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 lapaz.gov/622/Public-Records-Requests.
Is this the official La Paz 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.