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.
Webster Parish, Louisiana, has about 35,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Webster Parish Sheriff's Office and six 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 Webster 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: Webster Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Webster Parish
The Webster Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Webster Parish. It reported 142 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Webster Parish with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Minden, 11,195 residents: 293 arrests reported for 2025.
- Springhill, 4,485 residents: 29 arrests reported for 2024.
- Sibley, 1,077 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2023.
- Cullen, 680 residents.
- Dixie Inn, 278 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2023.
- Heflin, 205 residents: 0 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 Webster Parish
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.
- Minden: 293 for 2025, 360 for 2024, 794 for 2020 and 665 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Webster Parish Sheriff's Office: 142 for 2025, 145 for 2024, 182 for 2023, 170 for 2022, 146 for 2021 and 749 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Springhill: 29 for 2024, 17 for 2023, 14 for 2022, 54 for 2021, 163 for 2020 and 283 for 2019.
- Heflin: 0 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Dixie Inn: 3 for 2023, 7 for 2021 and 14 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
- Sibley: 0 for 2023, 0 for 2021 and 0 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 534 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 174 in 2024 against 200 in 2023, down 13 percent.
Sibley and Dixie Inn reported only part of 2024 (1 month and 1 month) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Webster Parish Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Webster Parish 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 630 people, up from about 580 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 654 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 Webster Parish Sheriff's Office at webster.lavns.org (page title: Webster Parish Jail), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Webster Parish
Whether someone was arrested in Webster Parish, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Webster Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at websterclerk.org, phone (318) 371-0366); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 26thda.org, phone (318) 741-8611).
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 Webster 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 Webster Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Minden, Springhill, Sibley, Cullen, Dixie Inn or Heflin: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (318) 741-8611, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Webster Parish, through the court records page at websterclerk.org, phone (318) 371-0366.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Webster Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the 11 cities in Webster Parish: Minden, Springhill, Sibley, Cullen, Dixie Inn and Heflin. Cotton Valley, Sarepta, Doyline, Dubberly and Shongaloo 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 Webster Parish.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Webster Parish each year?
Minden reported 293 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Webster Parish sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 534 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Webster Parish?
Ask the Webster Parish Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at webster.lavns.org.
Where are people arrested in Webster Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Webster Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Webster Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Webster 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 Webster Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Webster 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 Webster 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.