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.
Sterling, Colorado, in Logan County, has about 13,000 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 Logan 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: Sterling public records, Logan County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Sterling
The FBI lists Sterling with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Sterling Police Department. It reported 735 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 Logan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 338 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Sterling 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.
- Sterling: 735 for 2025, 882 for 2024, 807 for 2023, 688 for 2022, 911 for 2021 and 781 for 2020.
Sterling's 735 arrests in 2025 were down 17 percent from 882 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Sterling reported 455 arrests, against 442 in the same months of 2025.
Across Logan County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,073 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sterling Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sterling 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 2024 the jail held about 12 people, down from about 88 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 100 beds, and it ran at 12 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Sterling
For Sterling the place to look is the case index of the Logan 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/logan-county, phone (970) 522-5032).
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 Sterling
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 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 Sterling police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at sterlingcolo.com/departments/police_department/how_do_i/police_reco... (page title: Police Records & Accident Reports), phone (970)522-3512, 421 N 4th St PO Box 4000 Sterling, CO 80751, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Logan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Logan County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone (970) 522-5032.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at logancountyco.gov (page title: Colorado Open Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Logan County guide covers every agency in the county: Logan County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sterling each year?
Sterling reported 735 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Sterling booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Logan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sterling?
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 Sterling?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sterling police for its own arrests, the Logan 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at logancountyco.gov.
Is this the official Sterling 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.