Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 between September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Aspen, Colorado, in Pitkin County, has about 6,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Pitkin County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Aspen public records, Pitkin County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Aspen
The FBI lists Aspen with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Aspen Police Department. It reported 322 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 191 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Aspen Reports
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.
- Aspen: 322 for 2025, 318 for 2024, 236 for 2023, 191 for 2021 and 338 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
Aspen's 322 arrests in 2025 were up 1.3 percent from 318 in 2024.
Through May 2026, Aspen reported 102 arrests, against 144 in the same months of 2025.
Across Pitkin County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 344 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Aspen Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Aspen 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 2025 the jail held about 15 people, up from about 14 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 16 beds, and it ran at 94 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 Pitkin County Sheriff's Office at pitkincounty.com/149/Sheriff (page title: Pitkin County, CO), phone 970-920-5300, 530 E. Main St. Suite 103 Aspen, CO 81611, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Colorado Department of Corrections lists its inmates at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Aspen
An arrest in Aspen can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Pitkin County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/pitkin-county); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 9daco.org).
Colorado is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public, through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Aspen
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances, and it may charge research and retrieval time after the first hour, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Aspen police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at aspen.gov/448/Police-Records (page title: Police Records | Aspen, CO), phone 970-429-1829, 690 Kipling St., Ste. 3000, Lakewood, CO 80215, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-920-5300.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pitkin County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Pitkin County guide covers every agency in the county: Pitkin County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Aspen each year?
Aspen reported 322 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Aspen?
Ask the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office at 970-920-5300; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pitkincounty.com/149/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Aspen booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Aspen?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Colorado Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Aspen?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Aspen police for its own arrests, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances.
Is this the official Aspen website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.