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.
San Miguel County, Colorado, has about 7,800 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the San Miguel 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 San Miguel 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: San Miguel County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in San Miguel County
The San Miguel County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for San Miguel County. It reported 109 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two 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:
- Telluride, 2,486 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mountain Village, 1,240 residents: 12 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 San Miguel 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.
- San Miguel County Sheriff's Office: 109 for 2025, 111 for 2024, 110 for 2023, 142 for 2022 and 108 for 2021.
- Telluride: 33 for 2025, 39 for 2024, 55 for 2023, 54 for 2021, 53 for 2020 and 78 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Mountain Village: 12 for 2025, 17 for 2024, 15 for 2023, 14 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 20 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 154 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 154 in 2025 against 167 in 2024, down 7.8 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in San Miguel County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in San Miguel 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 4 people, down from about 9 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 32 beds, and it ran at 14 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 San Miguel County Sheriff's Office at sanmiguelcountyco.gov/554/Sheriffs-Office-Activity-Logs (page title: Sheriff's Office Activity | San Miguel County, CO), phone 970-728-1911, 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 San Miguel County
Whether someone was arrested in San Miguel County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the San Miguel County District Court, kept by the clerk of the combined court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sanmiguelcountyco.gov/156/Attorney, phone 970-728-3879).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at coloradojudicial.gov/location/san-miguel-county-courthouse (page title: San Miguel County Courthouse | Colorado Judicial Branch), phone 970-369-3310, belongs to a lower court, not to the San Miguel County District Court.
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 San Miguel 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 San Miguel County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-728-1911.
- An arrest in Telluride or Mountain Village: 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, 970-728-3879, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the San Miguel County District Court it is kept by the clerk of the combined court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-369-3310, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sanmiguelcountyco.gov (page title: Colorado Open Records Act | San Miguel County, CO).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in San Miguel County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the five cities in San Miguel County: Telluride and Mountain Village. Norwood, Ophir and Sawpit 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 San Miguel County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in San Miguel County each year?
The San Miguel County Sheriff's Office reported 109 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 154 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in San Miguel County?
Ask the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office at 970-728-1911; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sanmiguelcountyco.gov.
Where are people arrested in San Miguel County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in San Miguel 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 San Miguel County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the San Miguel 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 sanmiguelcountyco.gov.
Is this the official San Miguel 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.