Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 October 2, 2026.
International Falls, Minnesota, in Koochiching County, has about 5,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Koochiching County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: International Falls public records, Koochiching County arrest records, Minnesota arrest records and Minnesota inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in International Falls
The FBI lists International Falls with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as International Falls Police Department. It reported 58 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Koochiching County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 68 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests International Falls Reports
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.
- International Falls: 58 for 2025, 74 for 2024, 100 for 2023, 131 for 2022, 137 for 2021 and 227 for 2020.
International Falls's 58 arrests in 2025 were down 22 percent from 74 in 2024.
Through July 2026, International Falls reported 33 arrests, against 45 in the same months of 2025.
Across Koochiching County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 126 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in International Falls Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in International Falls 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 2021 the jail held about 19 people, up from about 19 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 28 beds, and it ran at 68 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 Koochiching County Sheriff's Office at koochiching.gov/183/Jail (page title: Jail | Koochiching County, MN), phone 218-283-4416, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in International Falls
Whether someone was arrested in International Falls, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Minnesota Court Records Online, the Minnesota Judicial Branch's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at koochiching.gov/158/Attorney, phone 218-283-1131).
Minnesota is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions, through the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. 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 International Falls
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 Minnesota Government Data Practices Act the agency must answer promptly, within a reasonable time, and it may charge copying, and staff time for requests over 100 pages.
- An arrest by the International Falls police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at ci.international-falls.mn.us/services/police-department (page title: International Falls Police Department | City of International Falls, Minnesota), phone (218) 283-1900, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Koochiching County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 218-283-4416.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 218-283-1131, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at koochiching.gov/375/Record-Requests (page title: Record Requests | Koochiching County, MN).
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
The Koochiching County guide covers every agency in the county: Koochiching County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in International Falls each year?
International Falls reported 58 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in International Falls?
Ask the Koochiching County Sheriff's Office at 218-283-4416; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at koochiching.gov/183/Jail.
Where are people arrested in International Falls booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Koochiching County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in International Falls?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in International Falls?
From the agency that made the arrest: the International Falls police for its own arrests, the Koochiching County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable time; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at koochiching.gov/375/Record-Requests.
Is this the official International Falls website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.