Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 9, 2026.
Port St. Lucie, Florida, in St. Lucie County, has about 259,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the State Attorney files charges, a case in the St. Lucie County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Port St. Lucie public records, St. Lucie County arrest records, Florida arrest records and Florida inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Port St. Lucie
The FBI lists Port St. Lucie with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Port St. Lucie Police Department. It reported 1,969 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 3,175 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in St. Lucie County: the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in St. Lucie County, the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in St. Lucie County, the Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement in St. Lucie County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at St. Lucie and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in St. Lucie County (state police).
How Many Arrests Port St. Lucie Reports
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.
- Port St. Lucie: 1,969 for 2025.
Through September 2026, Port St. Lucie reported 1,505 arrests, against 1,409 in the same months of 2025.
Across St. Lucie County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,301 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Port St. Lucie Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Port St. Lucie 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 1,230 people on an average day, up from about 1,100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,370 beds, and it ran at 103 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office at stluciesheriff.com/215/Inmate-Lookup (page title: Inmate Lookup | St. Lucie Co Sheriff's Office, FL), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Florida Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at fdc.myflorida.com.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Port St. Lucie
Whether someone was arrested in Port St. Lucie, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the St. Lucie County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at stlucieclerk.gov/public-search-gen); the State Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sao19.org/saint-lucie-office, phone 772-465-3000).
Florida is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24 a search, through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. 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 Port St. Lucie
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 Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the agency must answer promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the copy fees set by statute, plus a special service charge for large requests.
- An arrest by the Port St. Lucie police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofpsl.com/Government/Your-City-Government/Departments/City-Cler... (page title: Public Records Requests | City of Port St. Lucie, FL), phone 772-871-5168, 121 SW Port St. Lucie Blvd. Port St. Lucie, FL 34984, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State Attorney, 772-465-3000, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the St. Lucie County Circuit Court, through the court records page at stlucieclerk.gov/public-search-gen.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at stlucieco.gov (page title: Records Requests | St. Lucie County, FL).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The St. Lucie County guide covers every agency in the county: St. Lucie County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Port St. Lucie each year?
Port St. Lucie reported 1,969 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Port St. Lucie?
Look on the custody page of the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office at stluciesheriff.com/215/Inmate-Lookup. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Port St. Lucie booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Port St. Lucie?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119).
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Port St. Lucie?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Port St. Lucie police for its own arrests, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the answer is due promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at stlucieco.gov.
Is this the official Port St. Lucie website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.