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 September 25, 2026.
Evans, Colorado, in Weld County, has about 22,000 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 Weld 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: Evans public records, Weld County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Evans
The FBI lists Evans with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Evans Police Department. It reported 747 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 Weld County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,702 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Weld County: the University of Northern Colorado (campus police); Weld County Drug Task Force (other).
How Many Arrests Evans Reports
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.
- Evans: 747 for 2025, 686 for 2024, 862 for 2023, 1,001 for 2022, 1,059 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
Evans's 747 arrests in 2025 were up 8.9 percent from 686 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Evans reported 449 arrests, against 314 in the same months of 2025.
Across Weld County, the 21 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,660 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Evans Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Evans 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 2025 the jail held about 590 people, down from about 740 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 1,068 beds, and it ran at 56 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 Weld County Sheriff's Office at weldsheriff.com/Services/Jail-Reports (page title: Jail Reports Weld Sheriff), phone 970-356-4015, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Colorado Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Evans
Whether someone was arrested in Evans, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Weld 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/weld-county, phone (970) 475-2400); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at weld.gov/Government/Elected-Officials/District-Attorney, phone (970) 400-4750).
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 Evans
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 Evans police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at evanscolorado.gov/living-here/police-department/forms-resources (page title: Forms & Resources | City of Evans), phone (970) 475-1170, Monday to Friday): 8:00am - 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Weld County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-356-4015.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (970) 400-4750, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Weld County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone (970) 475-2400.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Weld County guide covers every agency in the county: Weld County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Evans each year?
Evans reported 747 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Evans?
Ask the Weld County Sheriff's Office at 970-356-4015; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at weldsheriff.com/Services/Jail-Reports.
Where are people arrested in Evans booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Weld County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Evans?
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 Evans?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Evans police for its own arrests, the Weld 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 Evans 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.