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.
Floyd County, Kentucky, has about 35,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Floyd County Sheriff's Office and five 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 Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Floyd Circuit 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: Floyd County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Floyd County
The Floyd County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Floyd County. It reported 641 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five 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:
- Prestonsburg, 3,638 residents: 337 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wheelwright, 1,051 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Martin, 478 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wayland, 359 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Allen, 167 residents: 0 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 Floyd 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.
- Floyd County Sheriff's Office: 641 for 2025, 911 for 2024, 951 for 2023, 551 for 2022, 610 for 2021 and 789 for 2020.
- Prestonsburg: 337 for 2025, 486 for 2024, 678 for 2023, 760 for 2022, 642 for 2021 and 389 for 2020.
- Martin: 17 for 2025, 14 for 2024, 29 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 4 for 2021 and 12 for 2020.
- Wheelwright: 1 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 16 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 5 for 2021 and 2 for 2020.
- Wayland: 0 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 5 for 2022, 2 for 2021 and 2 for 2020.
- Allen: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 996 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 996 in 2025 against 1,414 in 2024, down 30 percent.
Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 495 arrests, against 643 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Floyd County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Floyd 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 99 people on an average day, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 112 beds, and it is running at 88 percent of it. 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 Kentucky Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at kool.corrections.ky.gov/.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Floyd County
An arrest in Floyd County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Floyd Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kycourts.gov/Courts/County-Information/Pages/Floyd.aspx, phone 606-889-1658); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at government-state.org/company-commonwealth-attorney-office-in-presto..., phone (606) 889-1825).
Kentucky is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Administrative Office of the Courts, not the state police, sells name-based criminal record reports to the public, for $25 a search, through the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts. 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 Floyd 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 Kentucky Open Records Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying, 10 cents a page for standard copies.
- An arrest by the Floyd County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Prestonsburg, Wheelwright, Martin, Wayland or Allen: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Commonwealth's Attorney, (606) 889-1825, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Floyd Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-889-1658.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Floyd County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the five cities in Floyd County: Prestonsburg, Wheelwright, Martin, Wayland and Allen.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Floyd Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Floyd County each year?
The Floyd County Sheriff's Office reported 641 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 996 between them.
Where are people arrested in Floyd County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Floyd County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Floyd County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts: the Administrative Office of the Courts, not the state police, sells name-based criminal record reports to the public, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Kentucky Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Floyd County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Floyd County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Floyd 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.