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 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Cheboygan County, Michigan, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and one state 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 Cheboygan County 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: Cheboygan County public records, Michigan arrest records, Michigan inmate search and Michigan criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cheboygan County
The Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cheboygan County. It reported 226 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Cheboygan County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Cheboygan, 4,831 residents: 87 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.
The Mackinaw City Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Cheboygan County, so its arrests are not broken out for Cheboygan County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Cheboygan County: the Cheboygan County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cheboygan 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.
- Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office: 226 for 2025, 255 for 2024, 302 for 2023, 187 for 2022, 203 for 2021 and 177 for 2020.
- Cheboygan: 87 for 2025, 86 for 2024, 75 for 2023, 88 for 2022, 72 for 2021 and 101 for 2020.
- Tuscarora Township: 54 for 2025, 65 for 2024, 41 for 2023, 50 for 2022, 60 for 2021 and 53 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 367 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 367 in 2025 against 406 in 2024, down 9.6 percent.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 165 arrests, against 177 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cheboygan County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cheboygan 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 2019 the jail held about 75 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 103 beds, and it ran at 73 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 Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office at cheboygancounty.net/courts-law-enforcement/sheriffs-department (page title: Sheriff's Department Cheboygan County Michigan), phone (231) 627-3155, 3155 Office 870 South Main Street P.O. Box 70 Cheboygan, MI 49721, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Michigan Department of Corrections lists its inmates at mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cheboygan County
Whether someone was arrested in Cheboygan County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Cheboygan County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cheboygancounty.net/courts-law-enforcement/53rd-circuit-court/53rd-..., phone (231) 627-8818); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cheboygancounty.net/courts-law-enforcement/prosecuting-attorney, phone (231) 627-8450).
Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
Michigan is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10 a search, through the Michigan State Police. 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 Cheboygan 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 Michigan Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension, and it may charge labor and copying, at rates the law caps.
- An arrest by the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (231) 627-3155.
- An arrest in Cheboygan: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Cheboygan County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (231) 627-8450, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cheboygan County Circuit Court, through the court records page at cheboygancounty.net, phone (231) 627-8818.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cheboygan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Cheboygan County: Cheboygan. Wolverine has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Tuscarora Township Police Department as a city agency in Cheboygan County; Tuscarora Township is not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Cheboygan County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cheboygan County each year?
The Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office reported 226 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 367 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cheboygan County?
Ask the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office at (231) 627-3155; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cheboygancounty.net.
Where are people arrested in Cheboygan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cheboygan County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Michigan State Police: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cheboygan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension.
Is this the official Cheboygan 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.