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.
Morgan County, Colorado, has about 30,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Morgan County Sheriff's Office and four 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 Morgan 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: Morgan County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Morgan County
The Morgan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Morgan County. It reported 265 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Fort Morgan, 11,835 residents: 946 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brush, 5,370 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2020.
- Wiggins, 1,872 residents: 10 arrests reported for 2025.
- Log Lane Village, 938 residents: 25 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 Morgan 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.
- Fort Morgan: 946 for 2025, 922 for 2024, 916 for 2023, 777 for 2022, 797 for 2021 and 633 for 2020.
- Morgan County Sheriff's Office: 265 for 2025, 279 for 2024, 410 for 2023, 261 for 2022, 325 for 2021 and 412 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Log Lane Village: 25 for 2025, 3 for 2023 and 50 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Wiggins: 10 for 2025 and 16 for 2020; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Brush: 11 for 2020 and 48 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,246 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,211 in 2025 against 1,201 in 2024, up 0.8 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 217 arrests, against 199 in the same months of 2025.
Brush reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Morgan County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Morgan 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 2025 the jail held about 51 people, down from about 87 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 124 beds, and it ran at 41 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 Morgan County Sheriff's Office at morgancounty.colorado.gov/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Morgan County Where Prairie Meets the Sky), phone 970-542-3445, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Colorado Department of Corrections lists its inmates at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Morgan County
For Morgan County the place to look is the case index of the Morgan 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/morgan-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 Morgan 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 Morgan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-542-3445.
- An arrest in Fort Morgan, Brush, Wiggins or Log Lane Village: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Morgan 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 morgancounty.colorado.gov (page title: Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) Requests | Morgan County Where Prairie Meets the Sky).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Morgan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the five cities in Morgan County: Fort Morgan, Brush, Wiggins and Log Lane Village. Hillrose has 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 Morgan County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Morgan County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Brush (5,370)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Morgan County each year?
Fort Morgan reported 946 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,246 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Morgan County?
Ask the Morgan County Sheriff's Office at 970-542-3445; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at morgancounty.colorado.gov/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Morgan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Morgan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Morgan 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 Morgan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Morgan 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 morgancounty.colorado.gov.
Is this the official Morgan 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.