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 26, 2026.
Trinidad, Colorado, in Las Animas County, has about 8,200 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 Las Animas 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: Trinidad public records, Las Animas County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Trinidad
The FBI lists Trinidad with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Trinidad Police Department. It reported 461 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 Las Animas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 167 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Trinidad 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.
- Trinidad: 461 for 2025, 475 for 2024, 451 for 2023, 456 for 2022, 567 for 2021 and 547 for 2020.
Trinidad's 461 arrests in 2025 were down 2.9 percent from 475 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Trinidad reported 226 arrests, against 310 in the same months of 2025.
Across Las Animas County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 642 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Trinidad Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Trinidad 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 46 people, up from about 45 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 117 beds, and it ran at 39 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 Las Animas County Sheriff's Office at lasosheriff.org (page title: Las Animas County Sheriff's Office), phone 719-846-2211, 2309 E. Main Street Trinidad, CO 81082, Mondays through Fridays from 8am - 4pm., 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 Trinidad
For Trinidad the place to look is the case index of the Las Animas 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/las-animas-county).
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 Trinidad
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 Trinidad police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at trinidad.co.gov/request_a_police_report_or_video_footage/index.php (page title: Trinidad CO), Monday - Friday, 8 am to 5 pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Las Animas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 719-846-2211.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Las Animas County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lasanimascounty.colorado.gov (page title: Records Request | Las Animas County).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Las Animas County guide covers every agency in the county: Las Animas County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Trinidad each year?
Trinidad reported 461 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Trinidad?
Ask the Las Animas County Sheriff's Office at 719-846-2211; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at lasosheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Trinidad booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Las Animas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Trinidad?
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 Trinidad?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Trinidad police for its own arrests, the Las Animas 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 lasanimascounty.colorado.gov.
Is this the official Trinidad 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.