Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Eagle County, Colorado, has about 54,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Eagle County Sheriff's Office and five city agencies. An arrest 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 Eagle County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Eagle County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Eagle County
The Eagle County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Eagle County. It reported 439 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Eagle County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Gypsum, 9,218 residents: 120 arrests reported for 2025.
- Eagle, 7,349 residents: 153 arrests reported for 2025.
- Avon, 5,898 residents: 283 arrests reported for 2025.
- Vail, 4,466 residents: 267 arrests reported for 2025.
- Basalt, 4,001 residents: 66 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Eagle County
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.
- Eagle County Sheriff's Office: 439 for 2025, 398 for 2024, 397 for 2023, 360 for 2022, 390 for 2021 and 450 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Avon: 283 for 2025, 411 for 2024, 307 for 2023, 260 for 2022, 282 for 2021 and 247 for 2020.
- Vail: 267 for 2025, 268 for 2024, 497 for 2023, 456 for 2022, 423 for 2021 and 255 for 2020.
- Eagle: 153 for 2025, 123 for 2024, 95 for 2023, 159 for 2022, 125 for 2021 and 98 for 2020.
- Gypsum: 120 for 2025, 89 for 2023, 136 for 2022 and 75 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
- Basalt: 66 for 2025, 90 for 2024, 105 for 2023, 68 for 2022 and 98 for 2021.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,328 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,208 in 2025 against 1,290 in 2024, down 6.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 752 arrests, against 761 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Eagle County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Eagle County 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 54 people, down from about 56 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 120 beds, and it ran at 45 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 Eagle County Sheriff's Office at eaglesheriff.com/services/detention_facility/index.php (page title: EC Sheriff's Office), phone 970-328-8564, 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 Eagle County
Whether someone was arrested in Eagle County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Eagle 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/eagle-county, phone 970-328-6373); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at eaglecounty.us/departments___services/attorneys/index.php, phone 970-328-8685).
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 Eagle County
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 Eagle County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-328-8564.
- An arrest in Gypsum, Eagle, Avon, Vail or Basalt: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 970-328-8685, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Eagle County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-328-6373.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/node/9174 (page title: Record/Document Request Form | Eagle County | Colorado Judicial Branch).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Eagle County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the seven cities in Eagle County: Gypsum, Eagle, Avon, Vail and Basalt. Minturn and Red Cliff have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Eagle County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Eagle County each year?
The Eagle County Sheriff's Office reported 439 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,328 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Eagle County?
Ask the Eagle County Sheriff's Office at 970-328-8564; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at eaglesheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Eagle County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Eagle County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Eagle County?
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 Eagle County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Eagle County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 coloradojudicial.gov/node/9174.
Is this the official Eagle County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.