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 October 2, 2026.
Pueblo County, Colorado, has about 170,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one state agency. 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 Pueblo 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: Pueblo County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pueblo County
The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pueblo County. It reported 277 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Pueblo County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Pueblo, 111,166 residents: 1,076 arrests reported for 2024.
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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Pueblo County: Colorado Mental Health Institute (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pueblo 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.
- Pueblo: 1,076 for 2024, 1,144 for 2023, 1,282 for 2022, 1,476 for 2021, 1,501 for 2020 and 1,935 for 2019.
- Pueblo County Sheriff's Office: 277 for 2023, 492 for 2022, 413 for 2021, 470 for 2020 and 620 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 1,421 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 1,421 in 2023 against 1,774 in 2022, down 20 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pueblo County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pueblo 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 2024 the jail held about 370 people, down from about 680 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 509 beds, and it ran at 72 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 Pueblo County Sheriff's Office at pueblosheriff.com/340/Jail-Web-Services (page title: Jail Web Services | Pueblo County Sheriff, CO), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Pueblo County
For Pueblo County the place to look is the case index of the Pueblo 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/pueblo-county, phone 719-404-8752).
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 Pueblo 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 Pueblo County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Pueblo: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Colorado Mental Health Institute: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pueblo County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 719-404-8752.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at pueblo.us/169/Open-Records-Request-CORA (page title: Open Records Request (CORA) | Pueblo, CO).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Pueblo County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Pueblo County: Pueblo. Boone and Rye 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 Pueblo County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pueblo County each year?
Pueblo reported 1,076 arrests to the FBI for 2024. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Pueblo County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 1,421 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pueblo County?
Ask the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pueblosheriff.com/340/Jail-Web-Services.
Where are people arrested in Pueblo County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pueblo 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 Pueblo County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pueblo 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 pueblo.us/169/Open-Records-Request-CORA.
Is this the official Pueblo 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.