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.
Yuma County, Colorado, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Yuma 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 Yuma 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: Yuma County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Yuma County
The Yuma County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Yuma County. It reported 25 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:
- Yuma, 3,472 residents: 71 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wray, 2,363 residents: 24 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 Yuma 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.
- Yuma: 71 for 2025, 85 for 2023, 37 for 2020 and 49 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Yuma County Sheriff's Office: 25 for 2025, 23 for 2024, 10 for 2023, 40 for 2022, 53 for 2021 and 104 for 2020.
- Wray: 24 for 2025, 37 for 2024, 47 for 2022, 32 for 2020 and 38 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 120 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 49 in 2025 against 60 in 2024, down 18 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 93 arrests, against 64 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Yuma County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Yuma 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 2022 the jail held about 7 people, down from about 20 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022 was 42 beds, and it ran at 17 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Yuma County
An arrest in Yuma County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Yuma 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/yuma-county, phone 970-592-6120); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 13thda.com/about).
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 Yuma 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 Yuma County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Yuma or Wray: 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 handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Yuma County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-592-6120.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at yumacounty.net/cora-request (page title: CORA Request | Yuma County).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Yuma County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Yuma County: Yuma and Wray. Eckley 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 Yuma County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Yuma County each year?
Yuma reported 71 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 120 between them.
Where are people arrested in Yuma County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Yuma County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Yuma 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 Yuma County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Yuma 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 yumacounty.net/cora-request.
Is this the official Yuma 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.