SearchSystems Editorial

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 October 2, 2026.

About this guide

Hennepin County, Minnesota, has about 1.3 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, 28 city agencies and five campus, state or other agencies. 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Hennepin County District 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: Hennepin County public records, Minnesota arrest records, Minnesota inmate search and Minnesota criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Hennepin County

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hennepin County. It reported 1,396 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 26 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Minneapolis, 428,579 residents: 8,596 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Bloomington, 88,344 residents: 3,519 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Brooklyn Park, 82,893 residents: 1,182 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Plymouth, 78,551 residents: 768 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Maple Grove, 72,739 residents: 1,012 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Eden Prairie, 62,905 residents: 798 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Edina, 53,564 residents: 931 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Minnetonka, 52,651 residents: 680 arrests reported for 2025.
  • St. Louis Park, 49,899 residents: 1,004 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Richfield, 36,491 residents: 1,247 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Brooklyn Center, 31,755 residents: 858 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Champlin, 23,045 residents: 478 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 St. Anthony Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Hennepin County, so its arrests are not broken out for Hennepin County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hennepin County: the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities (campus police); Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the Three Rivers Park District and the Metropolitan Transit Commission (other); the State Patrol at Golden Valley (state police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hennepin 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.

  • Minneapolis: 8,596 for 2025, 7,150 for 2024, 7,121 for 2023, 6,291 for 2022, 6,165 for 2021 and 8,606 for 2020.
  • Bloomington: 3,519 for 2025, 4,293 for 2024, 4,660 for 2023, 3,772 for 2022, 3,719 for 2021 and 4,593 for 2020.
  • Hennepin County Sheriff's Office: 1,396 for 2025, 1,345 for 2024, 974 for 2023, 807 for 2022, 613 for 2021 and 714 for 2020.
  • Richfield: 1,247 for 2025, 1,019 for 2024, 754 for 2023, 1,089 for 2022, 978 for 2021 and 1,231 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Brooklyn Park: 1,182 for 2025, 1,294 for 2024, 1,261 for 2023, 1,518 for 2022, 1,482 for 2021 and 2,143 for 2020.
  • Maple Grove: 1,012 for 2025, 813 for 2024, 984 for 2023, 1,101 for 2022, 1,086 for 2021 and 1,304 for 2020.
  • St. Louis Park: 1,004 for 2025, 1,026 for 2024, 864 for 2023, 786 for 2022, 736 for 2021 and 703 for 2020.
  • Edina: 931 for 2025, 791 for 2024, 710 for 2023, 945 for 2022, 847 for 2021 and 997 for 2020.
  • Brooklyn Center: 858 for 2025, 768 for 2024, 741 for 2023, 896 for 2022, 962 for 2021 and 1,329 for 2020.
  • Eden Prairie: 798 for 2025, 802 for 2024, 697 for 2023, 762 for 2022, 702 for 2021 and 948 for 2020.
  • Plymouth: 768 for 2025, 687 for 2024, 617 for 2023, 762 for 2022, 694 for 2021 and 850 for 2020.
  • Minnetonka: 680 for 2025, 822 for 2024, 557 for 2023, 376 for 2022, 315 for 2021 and 418 for 2020.

Together, the 29 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 25,183 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 25,183 in 2025 against 23,792 in 2024, up 5.8 percent.

Through August 2026, the 26 agencies with every month so far on file reported 15,545 arrests, against 14,687 in the same months of 2025.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Hennepin County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Hennepin 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 2023 the jail held about 720 people, down from about 1,060 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,300 beds, and it ran at 56 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office at minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/public-safety/police-public-saf... (page title: Jail Roster | City of Minneapolis), phone 612-348-5112, 350 Fifth St. S., Room 130 Minneapolis, MN 55415, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.

That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Hennepin County

An arrest in Hennepin County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; 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 hennepincounty.gov/sitecore/content/hcattorney).

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 Hennepin 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 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 Hennepin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 612-348-5112.
  • An arrest in Minneapolis, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Eden Prairie or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport or the Three Rivers Park District: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
  • Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Cities in Hennepin County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 26 of the 41 cities in Hennepin County: the twelve named above and Crystal, Golden Valley, New Hope, Hopkins, Rogers, Robbinsdale, Dayton, Minnetrista, Corcoran, Orono, Medina, Wayzata, Deephaven and Osseo. Mound, Shorewood, Independence, Greenfield, Excelsior, St. Bonifacius, Long Lake, Maple Plain, Spring Park, Tonka Bay, Medicine Lake, Greenwood and three more have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the West Hennepin Police Department and the South Lake Minnetonka Police Department as city agencies in Hennepin County; West Hennepin and South Lake Minnetonka are 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 Hennepin County District Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hennepin County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Hennepin County each year?

Minneapolis reported 8,596 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 29 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 25,183 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hennepin County?

Look on the custody page of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office at minneapolismn.gov, or call 612-348-5112. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Hennepin County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Hennepin County?

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 Hennepin County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable time.

Is this the official Hennepin 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.