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.
Delta County, Michigan, has about 37,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Delta 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 Delta 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: Delta County public records, Michigan arrest records, Michigan inmate search and Michigan criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Delta County
The Delta County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Delta County. It reported 137 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Delta County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Escanaba, 12,296 residents: 366 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gladstone, 5,226 residents: 65 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Delta County: the Delta County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Delta 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.
- Escanaba: 366 for 2025, 424 for 2024, 471 for 2023, 526 for 2022, 558 for 2021 and 533 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Delta County Sheriff's Office: 137 for 2025, 140 for 2024, 191 for 2023, 141 for 2022, 155 for 2021 and 97 for 2020.
- Gladstone: 65 for 2025, 38 for 2024, 21 for 2023, 17 for 2022, 23 for 2021 and 32 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 568 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 568 in 2025 against 602 in 2024, down 5.6 percent.
Through September 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 388 arrests, against 433 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Delta County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Delta County is held at the county 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 2022 the jail held about 110 people, up from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 131 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Delta County Sheriff's Office at deltacountymi.gov/sheriffs-office/correctional-facility (page title: Correctional Facility | Delta County), phone (906) 786-3633, Monday through Friday, 8AM-4PM, 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 Delta County
An arrest in Delta County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Delta County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.michigan.gov/case-search/?resultType=cases&aBarNumber=73058); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at deltacountymi.gov/prosecutors-office, phone (906) 789-5100).
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 Delta 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 Delta County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (906) 786-3633.
- An arrest in Escanaba or Gladstone: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Delta 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, (906) 789-5100, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Delta County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.michigan.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at deltacountymi.gov (page title: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) | Delta County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Delta County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Delta County: Escanaba and Gladstone. Garden has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Delta County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Delta County each year?
Escanaba reported 366 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 568 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Delta County?
Ask the Delta County Sheriff's Office at (906) 786-3633; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at deltacountymi.gov.
Where are people arrested in Delta County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Delta County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Delta 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 Delta County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Delta 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at deltacountymi.gov.
Is this the official Delta 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.