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.
Weld County, Colorado, has about 370,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Weld County Sheriff's Office, 22 city agencies and two campus, state or other 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 Weld 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: Weld County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Weld County
The Weld County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Weld County. It reported 1,702 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside 22 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, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:
- Greeley, 114,363 residents: 5,337 arrests reported for 2025.
- Windsor, 41,734 residents: 331 arrests reported for 2025.
- Erie, 38,594 residents: 298 arrests reported for 2025.
- Evans, 22,394 residents: 747 arrests reported for 2025.
- Johnstown, 20,639 residents: 608 arrests reported for 2025.
- Firestone, 19,396 residents: 170 arrests reported for 2025.
- Frederick, 17,937 residents: 268 arrests reported for 2025.
- Severance, 11,554 residents: 62 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fort Lupton, 9,948 residents: 243 arrests reported for 2025.
- Milliken, 9,102 residents: 82 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lochbuie, 8,599 residents: 135 arrests reported for 2025.
- Dacono, 6,748 residents: 47 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 Brighton Police Department, the Northglenn Police Department, the Longmont Police Department and one more are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Weld County, so their arrests are not broken out for Weld County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Weld County: the University of Northern Colorado (campus police); Weld County Drug Task Force (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Weld 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.
- Greeley: 5,337 for 2025, 4,751 for 2024, 4,046 for 2023, 4,195 for 2022, 4,336 for 2021 and 4,094 for 2020.
- Weld County Sheriff's Office: 1,702 for 2025, 1,502 for 2024, 1,483 for 2023, 1,693 for 2021, 1,275 for 2020 and 1,576 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Evans: 747 for 2025, 686 for 2024, 862 for 2023, 1,001 for 2022, 1,059 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Johnstown: 608 for 2025, 812 for 2024, 881 for 2023, 685 for 2022, 468 for 2021 and 393 for 2020.
- Windsor: 331 for 2025, 357 for 2024, 335 for 2023, 292 for 2022 and 222 for 2021.
- Erie: 298 for 2025, 350 for 2024, 406 for 2023, 345 for 2022, 368 for 2021 and 336 for 2020.
- Frederick: 268 for 2025, 174 for 2024, 214 for 2023, 90 for 2022, 74 for 2021 and 64 for 2020.
- Fort Lupton: 243 for 2025, 258 for 2024, 484 for 2023, 464 for 2022, 439 for 2021 and 415 for 2020.
- Firestone: 170 for 2025, 182 for 2024, 198 for 2023, 109 for 2022, 158 for 2021 and 173 for 2020.
- Keenesburg: 159 for 2025, 112 for 2024, 110 for 2023 and 51 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
- Lochbuie: 135 for 2025, 206 for 2024, 128 for 2023 and 102 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
- Hudson: 132 for 2025, 114 for 2024, 154 for 2023, 101 for 2022, 77 for 2021 and 57 for 2020.
Together, the 21 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,660 arrests that year. The 20 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 10,571 in 2025 against 9,976 in 2024, up 6 percent.
Through June 2026, the 16 agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,792 arrests, against 2,371 in the same months of 2025.
Nunn and Garden City reported only part of 2025 (7 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Weld County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Weld 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 590 people, down from about 740 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 1,068 beds, and it ran at 56 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 Weld County Sheriff's Office at weldsheriff.com/Services/Jail-Reports (page title: Jail Reports Weld Sheriff), phone 970-356-4015, 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 Weld County
Whether someone was arrested in Weld County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Weld 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/weld-county, phone (970) 475-2400); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at weld.gov/Government/Elected-Officials/District-Attorney, phone (970) 400-4750).
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 Weld 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 Weld County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-356-4015.
- An arrest in Greeley, Windsor, Erie, Evans, Johnstown, Firestone or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the University of Northern Colorado or Weld County Drug Task Force: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (970) 400-4750, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Weld County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone (970) 475-2400.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Weld County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 22 of the 26 cities in Weld County: the twelve named above and Mead, Eaton, Platteville, Ault, La Salle, Keenesburg, Hudson, Kersey, Nunn and Garden City. Pierce, Gilcrest, Grover and Raymer (New Raymer) 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 Weld County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Weld County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Weld County each year?
Greeley reported 5,337 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 21 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 10,660 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Weld County?
Ask the Weld County Sheriff's Office at 970-356-4015; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at weldsheriff.com/Services/Jail-Reports.
Where are people arrested in Weld County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Weld County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Weld 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 Weld County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Weld 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.
Is this the official Weld 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.