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 September 30, 2026.
Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, has about 58,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Vermilion Parish 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 parish jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Vermilion Parish. 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: Vermilion Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Vermilion Parish
The Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Vermilion Parish. It reported 208 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Vermilion Parish with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Abbeville, 10,902 residents: 187 arrests reported for 2022.
- Kaplan, 4,164 residents: 299 arrests reported for 2020.
- Erath, 1,956 residents: 41 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 Vermilion Parish
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.
- Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office: 208 for 2025, 121 for 2024, 83 for 2023, 142 for 2021 and 621 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Erath: 41 for 2025, 121 for 2023, 110 for 2022, 100 for 2021 and 134 for 2019; 2020 and 2024 are missing months.
- Kaplan: 299 for 2020 and 346 for 2019.
- Abbeville: 187 for 2022, 240 for 2021, 421 for 2020 and 609 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 249 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 208 in 2025 against 121 in 2024, up 72 percent.
Through May 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 157 arrests, against 84 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Vermilion Parish Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Vermilion Parish is held at the parish 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 2021 the jail held about 140 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 151 beds, and it ran at 99 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 Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office at vermilionsheriff.gov/prisoners (page title: Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office), phone (337) 893-0871, 14202 Allen Bares Jr. Dr, Abbeville, LA 70510, Tuesday 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Vermilion Parish
For Vermilion Parish the place to look is the case index of the District Court for Vermilion Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at vermilionclerk.com).
Louisiana does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Vermilion Parish
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 Louisiana Public Records Law the agency must answer within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.
- An arrest by the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (337) 893-0871.
- An arrest in Abbeville, Kaplan or Erath: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Vermilion Parish, through the court records page at vermilionclerk.com.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Vermilion Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Vermilion Parish: Abbeville, Kaplan and Erath. Maurice, Delcambre and Gueydan have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the parish the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the parish jail and the case goes to the District Court for Vermilion Parish.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Vermilion Parish each year?
The Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office reported 208 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 249 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Vermilion Parish?
Ask the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office at (337) 893-0871; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at vermilionsheriff.gov/prisoners.
Where are people arrested in Vermilion Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Vermilion Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Vermilion Parish are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Louisiana Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Vermilion Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the answer is due within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Vermilion Parish website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.