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

Who Makes Arrests in Pima County

The Pima County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pima County. It reported 7,853 arrests for 2025.

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

• Tucson, 554,013 residents: 15,660 arrests reported for 2025.
• Marana, 62,380 residents: 1,372 arrests reported for 2025.
• Oro Valley, 48,855 residents: 848 arrests reported for 2025.
• Sahuarita, 37,448 residents: 408 arrests reported for 2025.
• South Tucson, 4,535 residents: 776 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.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Pima County: the Tucson Airport Authority (other); the University of Arizona and Pima Community College (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pima 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.

• Tucson: 15,660 for 2025, 14,608 for 2024, 17,199 for 2023, 23,783 for 2020 and 34,024 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
• Pima County Sheriff's Office: 7,853 for 2025, 8,312 for 2024, 8,336 for 2023, 8,338 for 2022, 7,051 for 2021 and 7,358 for 2020.
• Marana: 1,372 for 2025, 1,294 for 2024, 1,429 for 2023, 1,645 for 2022, 1,434 for 2021 and 1,417 for 2020.
• Oro Valley: 848 for 2025, 971 for 2024, 1,074 for 2023, 917 for 2022, 1,116 for 2021 and 903 for 2020.
• South Tucson: 776 for 2025, 676 for 2024, 438 for 2023 and 388 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
• Sahuarita: 408 for 2025, 464 for 2024, 545 for 2023, 491 for 2022, 555 for 2021 and 838 for 2020.

Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 26,917 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 26,917 in 2025 against 26,325 in 2024, up 2.2 percent.

Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 15,929 arrests, against 15,290 in the same months of 2025.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Pima County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Pima 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 2024 the jail held about 1,600 people, down from about 1,850 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022, the last year with a capacity figure, was 613 beds, and it ran at 289 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 Pima County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.pima.gov/inmate (page title: Pima County Sheriff Department), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Pima County

For Pima County the place to look is the case index of the Pima County Superior Court, kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.

The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at jp.pima.gov/CaseSearch (page title: Case Search), phone (520) 724-3171, belongs to a lower court, not to the Pima 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 Pima 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 Pima County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• An arrest in Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley, Sahuarita or South Tucson: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
• An arrest by the Tucson Airport Authority, the University of Arizona or Pima Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
• The court file of a case that was filed: in the Pima County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at jp.pima.gov/CaseSearch, phone (520) 724-3171, is a lower court's.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sc.pima.gov (page title: Public Records Requests).
• Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Pima County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the five cities in Pima County: Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley, Sahuarita and South Tucson.

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

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

• Tucson (554,013)
• Marana (62,380)
• Oro Valley (48,855)
• Sahuarita (37,448)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Pima County each year?

Tucson reported 15,660 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 26,917 between them.

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

Ask the Pima County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.pima.gov/inmate.

Where are people arrested in Pima County booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Pima County?

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

From the agency that made the arrest: the Pima 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 sc.pima.gov.

Is this the official Pima 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.