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 between September 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Shoshone County, Idaho, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Shoshone 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: Shoshone County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Shoshone County
The Shoshone County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Shoshone County. It reported 416 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Kellogg, 2,441 residents: 117 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pinehurst, 1,784 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2023.
- Osburn, 1,678 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Shoshone 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.
- Shoshone County Sheriff's Office: 416 for 2024, 506 for 2023, 416 for 2022, 448 for 2020 and 275 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Kellogg: 117 for 2025, 99 for 2024, 166 for 2023, 104 for 2022, 72 for 2021 and 89 for 2020.
- Osburn: 33 for 2024, 18 for 2023, 22 for 2022, 25 for 2020 and 29 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Pinehurst: 16 for 2023, 10 for 2022, 11 for 2020 and 12 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 548 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 548 in 2024 against 690 in 2023, down 21 percent.
Pinehurst reported only part of 2024 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Shoshone County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Shoshone 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 2019 the jail held about 46 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 48 beds, and it ran at 96 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 Shoshone County Sheriff's Office at shoshonecounty.id.gov/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Shoshone County Idaho), phone (208) 556-1114, 717 Bank Street Wallace, ID 83873, Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Shoshone County
Whether someone was arrested in Shoshone County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Shoshone County District Court, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at shoshonecounty.id.gov/prosecutor, phone (208) 752-1106).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at shoshonecounty.id.gov/shoshone-county-courts (page title: Shoshone County Courts | Shoshone County Idaho), phone 208-752-1266, belongs to a lower court, not to the Shoshone County District Court.
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 Shoshone 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 Shoshone County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (208) 556-1114.
- An arrest in Kellogg, Pinehurst or Osburn: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (208) 752-1106, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Shoshone County District Court it is kept by the Clerk of the District Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at shoshonecounty.id.gov/shoshone-county-courts, phone 208-752-1266, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Shoshone County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the seven cities in Shoshone County: Kellogg, Pinehurst and Osburn. Wallace, Smelterville, Mullan and Wardner 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 Shoshone County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Shoshone County each year?
The Shoshone County Sheriff's Office reported 416 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the three agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 548 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Shoshone County?
Ask the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office at (208) 556-1114; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at shoshonecounty.id.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Shoshone County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Shoshone 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 Shoshone County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Shoshone 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.
Is this the official Shoshone 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.