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 24, 2026.
Caribou County, Idaho, has about 7,200 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Caribou County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Caribou 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: Caribou County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Caribou County
The Caribou County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Caribou County. It reported 84 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Caribou County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Soda Springs, 3,162 residents: 144 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 Caribou 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.
- Soda Springs: 144 for 2025, 104 for 2024, 124 for 2023, 181 for 2022, 252 for 2021 and 133 for 2020.
- Caribou County Sheriff's Office: 84 for 2025, 76 for 2022, 90 for 2021, 110 for 2020 and 77 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 228 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 144 in 2025 against 104 in 2024, up 38 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Caribou County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Caribou 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 2023 the jail held about 42 people, up from about 41 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 51 beds, and it ran at 82 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 Caribou County Sheriff's Office at caribousheriff.com/departments/detention_and_jail (page title: Welcome to Caribou County Sheriff), phone (208) 547-3094, Mon - 1:00pm - 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Idaho Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Caribou County
For Caribou County the place to look is the case index of the Caribou County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cariboucounty.us/departments/county_clerk/index.php, phone (208) 547-4324).
Statewide, iCourt Portal is the Idaho courts' free statewide case search.
Idaho is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: name-based conviction checks are open to the public, through the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification. 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 Caribou County
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 Idaho Public Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, or 10 when more time is needed, and it may charge copying after the first 100 pages and labor after the first two hours.
- An arrest by the Caribou County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (208) 547-3094.
- An arrest in Soda Springs: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Caribou County District Court, through the court records page at cariboucounty.us, phone (208) 547-4324.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at caribousheriff.com (page title: Request a Report).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Caribou County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Caribou County: Soda Springs. Grace and Bancroft 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 Caribou County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Caribou County each year?
Soda Springs reported 144 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 228 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Caribou County?
Ask the Caribou County Sheriff's Office at (208) 547-3094; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at caribousheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Caribou County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Caribou County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Caribou County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification: name-based conviction checks are open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Idaho Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Caribou County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Caribou County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Idaho Public Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, or 10 when more time is needed; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at caribousheriff.com.
Is this the official Caribou 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.