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.
Teller County, Colorado, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Teller County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies 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 Teller 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: Teller County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Teller County
The Teller County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Teller County. It reported 468 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Teller County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Woodland Park, 8,043 residents: 176 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cripple Creek, 1,122 residents: 147 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.
The Green Mountain Falls Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Teller County, so its arrests are not broken out for Teller County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Teller County: the Division of Gaming Criminal Enforcement and Investigations Section, Cripple Creek (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Teller 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.
- Teller County Sheriff's Office: 468 for 2025, 799 for 2022, 951 for 2021, 824 for 2020 and 813 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Woodland Park: 176 for 2025, 170 for 2024, 234 for 2023, 266 for 2022, 235 for 2021 and 207 for 2020.
- Cripple Creek: 147 for 2025, 179 for 2024, 80 for 2022, 131 for 2021, 191 for 2020 and 270 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 791 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 323 in 2025 against 349 in 2024, down 7.4 percent.
Through April 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 269 arrests, against 269 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Teller County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Teller 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 88 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 487 beds, and it ran at 18 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 Teller County Sheriff's Office at tellercounty.gov/Detentions-Facility (page title: Detentions Facility | Teller County, CO), phone 719-687-7770, 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 Teller County
For Teller County the place to look is the case index of the Teller 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/teller-county, phone 719-689-6925).
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 Teller 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 Teller County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 719-687-7770.
- An arrest in Woodland Park or Cripple Creek: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Division of Gaming Criminal Enforcement and Investigations Section, Cripple Creek: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Teller County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 719-689-6925.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tellercounty.gov (page title: Form Center, Teller County Sheriff's Office Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Teller County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Teller County: Woodland Park and Cripple Creek. Victor 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 Teller County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Teller County each year?
The Teller County Sheriff's Office reported 468 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 791 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Teller County?
Ask the Teller County Sheriff's Office at 719-687-7770; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at tellercounty.gov/Detentions-Facility.
Where are people arrested in Teller County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Teller County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Teller 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 Teller County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Teller 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 tellercounty.gov.
Is this the official Teller 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.