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 between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Moffat County, Colorado, has about 13,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Moffat County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Moffat 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: Moffat County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Moffat County
The Moffat County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Moffat County. It reported 142 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Moffat County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Craig, 8,903 residents: 326 arrests reported for 2025.
- Dinosaur, 247 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2021.
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 Moffat County
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.
- Craig: 326 for 2025, 507 for 2024, 558 for 2023, 592 for 2022, 377 for 2021 and 369 for 2020.
- Moffat County Sheriff's Office: 142 for 2025, 174 for 2024, 203 for 2023, 180 for 2022, 157 for 2021 and 120 for 2020.
- Dinosaur: 9 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 468 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 468 in 2025 against 681 in 2024, down 31 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 183 arrests, against 258 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Moffat County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Moffat 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 25 people, down from about 40 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 105 beds, and it ran at 24 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 Moffat County Sheriff's Office at moffatcounty.colorado.gov/government/elected-officials/county-sheriff (page title: County Sheriff | Moffat County), phone (970) 824-4495, 800 W. 1st St. Ste. 100 Craig, CO 81625, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Moffat County
Whether someone was arrested in Moffat County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Moffat 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/moffat-county, phone 970-824-8254); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at moffatcounty.colorado.gov/government/departments/district-attorneys..., phone (970) 824-7041).
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 Moffat 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 Moffat County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (970) 824-4495.
- An arrest in Craig or Dinosaur: 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) 824-7041, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Moffat County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-824-8254.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/node/9193 (page title: Record/Document Request Form | Moffat County | Colorado Judicial Branch).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Moffat County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Moffat County: Craig and Dinosaur.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Moffat County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Moffat County each year?
Craig reported 326 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 468 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Moffat County?
Ask the Moffat County Sheriff's Office at (970) 824-4495; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at moffatcounty.colorado.gov.
Where are people arrested in Moffat County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Moffat County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Moffat 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 Moffat County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Moffat 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/9193.
Is this the official Moffat 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.