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.
Gunnison County, Colorado, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gunnison County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Gunnison 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: Gunnison County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gunnison County
The Gunnison County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gunnison County. It reported 80 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Gunnison, 6,821 residents: 309 arrests reported for 2025.
- Crested Butte, 1,643 residents: 27 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mount Crested Butte, 953 residents: 40 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 Gunnison 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.
- Gunnison: 309 for 2025, 339 for 2024, 294 for 2023, 301 for 2022, 249 for 2021 and 251 for 2020.
- Gunnison County Sheriff's Office: 80 for 2025, 145 for 2024, 168 for 2023, 103 for 2021, 71 for 2020 and 118 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Mount Crested Butte: 40 for 2025, 54 for 2024, 57 for 2022, 48 for 2021, 61 for 2020 and 64 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Crested Butte: 27 for 2025, 47 for 2024, 41 for 2023, 48 for 2022, 55 for 2021 and 67 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 456 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 456 in 2025 against 585 in 2024, down 22 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 227 arrests, against 248 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gunnison County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Gunnison County 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 4 people, down from about 15 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 82 beds, and it ran at 5 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 Gunnison County Sheriff's Office at gunnisoncounty.org/165/Detention-Services (page title: Detention Services | Gunnison County, CO), phone 970-641-1113, 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 Gunnison County
For Gunnison County the place to look is the case index of the Gunnison 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/gunnison-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 Gunnison County
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 Gunnison County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-641-1113.
- An arrest in Gunnison, Crested Butte or Mount Crested Butte: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gunnison 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 gunnisoncounty.org (page title: Form Center, Public Records Request Form).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Gunnison County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Gunnison County: Gunnison, Crested Butte and Mount Crested Butte. Marble and Pitkin 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 Gunnison County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gunnison County each year?
Gunnison reported 309 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 456 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gunnison County?
Ask the Gunnison County Sheriff's Office at 970-641-1113; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gunnisoncounty.org/165/Detention-Services.
Where are people arrested in Gunnison County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gunnison County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gunnison 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 Gunnison County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gunnison 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 gunnisoncounty.org.
Is this the official Gunnison 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.