Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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). In Michigan the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the County Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Michigan State Police is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Cheboygan County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Cheboygan County public records, Cheboygan County arrest records, Cheboygan County warrants, Cheboygan County inmate search, Cheboygan County court records, Michigan arrest records and Michigan inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Cheboygan County Circuit Court
In Michigan the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Cheboygan County are heard by the Cheboygan County Circuit Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $25,000, divorces and family matters; the District Court takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and civil cases up to $25,000, and the file of each case is kept by the County Clerk.
For Cheboygan County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at cheboygancounty.net/courts-law-enforcement/53rd-circuit-court/53rd-... (page title: 53rd Circuit Court Records Cheboygan County Michigan), phone (231) 627-8818, 870 S. Main Street Cheboygan, MI 49721, Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
The Michigan Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it. The search is on the Michigan State Police site.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Cheboygan County
The Cheboygan County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Cheboygan keep the arrest records in Cheboygan County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Cheboygan County: the Cheboygan County State Police (state police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
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.
Together, the three agencies in Cheboygan County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 367 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Cheboygan County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Cheboygan County in 2025
The three agencies in Cheboygan County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 25 violent and 87 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 112 crimes in 2025 against 191 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Cheboygan County public records guide.
The Prosecuting Attorney for Cheboygan County
Charges in Cheboygan County are filed by the Prosecuting Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Cheboygan County Circuit Court or the District Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at cheboygancounty.net/courts-law-enforcement/prosecuting-attorney (page title: Prosecuting Attorney Cheboygan County Michigan), phone (231) 627-8450, 8450 Office 870 S. Main Street, Rm 143 P.O. Box 70 Cheboygan, MI 49721, Mon-Fri, 8:00am-4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Cheboygan County
Registered sex offenders living in Cheboygan County are listed on the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry, run by the Michigan State Police at michigan.gov/msp/services/sex-offender-reg. Tier 2 and Tier 3 offenders are listed online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Cheboygan County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension, and it may charge labor and copying, at rates the law caps.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal 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.
Can I search Cheboygan County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at cheboygancounty.net (page title: 53rd Circuit Court Records Cheboygan County Michigan). Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
How do I get my own Michigan criminal history?
Through the same ICHAT search, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Cheboygan County?
The Prosecuting Attorney, reached at (231) 627-8450, which files its cases in the Cheboygan County Circuit Court or the District Court.
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.