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.
Littleton, Colorado, in Arapahoe County, has about 45,000 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 Arapahoe 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: Littleton public records, Arapahoe County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Littleton
The FBI lists Littleton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Littleton Police Department. It reported 1,097 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 Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,112 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Arapahoe County: Arapahoe Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Littleton 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.
- Littleton: 1,097 for 2025, 631 for 2024, 633 for 2023, 761 for 2022, 624 for 2021 and 870 for 2020.
Littleton's 1,097 arrests in 2025 were up 74 percent from 631 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Littleton reported 721 arrests, against 757 in the same months of 2025.
Across Arapahoe County, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 23,755 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Littleton Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Littleton 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 890 people, down from about 1,110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 1,174 beds, and it ran at 76 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 Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office at arapahoeco.gov/your_county/county_departments/sheriffs_office/burea... (page title: Detentions Service Bureau), phone 720-874-3500, 7375 S. Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112, 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 Littleton
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 Littleton
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 Littleton police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at police.littletonco.gov/Services-and-Programs/Reports-and-Accidents/... (page title: Request a Report Littleton Police Department), phone (303) 794-1551, Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 720-874-3500.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Arapahoe County guide covers every agency in the county: Arapahoe County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Littleton each year?
Littleton reported 1,097 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Littleton?
Ask the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office at 720-874-3500; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at arapahoeco.gov.
Where are people arrested in Littleton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Littleton?
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 Littleton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Littleton police for its own arrests, the Arapahoe 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 Littleton 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.