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

Who Makes Arrests in Navajo County

The Navajo County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Navajo County. It reported 774 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists five cities in Navajo County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:

• Show Low, 12,366 residents: 1,073 arrests reported for 2025.
• Winslow, 8,577 residents: 1,232 arrests reported for 2025.
• Snowflake, 6,736 residents: 262 arrests reported for 2025.
• Holbrook, 4,837 residents: 428 arrests reported for 2023.
• Pinetop-Lakeside, 4,148 residents: 321 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 Navajo 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.

• Winslow: 1,232 for 2025, 1,343 for 2024, 1,491 for 2023, 1,292 for 2022, 1,333 for 2021 and 1,447 for 2020.
• Show Low: 1,073 for 2025, 996 for 2024, 1,148 for 2023, 1,141 for 2022, 1,462 for 2021 and 1,536 for 2020.
• Navajo County Sheriff's Office: 774 for 2025, 691 for 2024, 682 for 2023, 667 for 2022, 1,548 for 2020 and 2,087 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• Pinetop-Lakeside: 321 for 2025, 322 for 2024, 388 for 2023, 451 for 2022, 457 for 2021 and 399 for 2020.
• Snowflake: 262 for 2025, 219 for 2024, 294 for 2023, 305 for 2022, 410 for 2020 and 481 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• Holbrook: 428 for 2023 and 797 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.

Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,662 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,662 in 2025 against 3,571 in 2024, up 2.5 percent.

Through May 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,024 arrests, against 921 in the same months of 2025.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Navajo County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Navajo 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 2021 the jail held about 270 people, down from about 290 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 490 beds, and it ran at 60 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 Navajo County Sheriff's Office at navajocountyaz.gov/160/Detention (page title: Detention | Navajo County, AZ), phone 928-524-5762, 100 East Code Talkers Drive Holbrook AZ 86025, Monday through Friday 8 am to 3:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 2, 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 Navajo County

Whether someone was arrested in Navajo County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Navajo County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at navajocountyaz.gov/200/Clerk-of-the-Court, phone 928-524-4261); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at navajocountyaz.gov/214/County-Attorney, phone 928-524-4026).

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 Navajo County

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 Navajo County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 928-524-5762.
• An arrest in Show Low, Winslow, Snowflake, Holbrook or Pinetop-Lakeside: 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, 928-524-4026, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Navajo County Superior Court, through the court records page at navajocountyaz.gov/200/Clerk-of-the-Court, phone 928-524-4261.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at navajocountyaz.gov/207/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Navajo County, AZ).
• Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Navajo County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the six cities in Navajo County: Show Low, Winslow, Snowflake, Holbrook and Pinetop-Lakeside. Taylor has 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 Navajo County Superior Court.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Navajo County each year?

Winslow reported 1,232 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,662 between them.

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

Ask the Navajo County Sheriff's Office at 928-524-5762; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at navajocountyaz.gov/160/Detention.

Where are people arrested in Navajo County booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Navajo County?

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

From the agency that made the arrest: the Navajo 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 navajocountyaz.gov/207/Public-Records-Request.

Is this the official Navajo 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.