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.
Kanabec County, Minnesota, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kanabec County Sheriff's Office. 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 Kanabec 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: Kanabec County public records, Minnesota arrest records, Minnesota inmate search and Minnesota criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kanabec County
The Kanabec County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kanabec County. It reported 134 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Kanabec County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Kanabec County Sheriff's Office: 134 for 2025, 95 for 2024, 133 for 2023, 116 for 2022 and 122 for 2021.
The Kanabec County Sheriff's Office's 134 arrests in 2025 were up 41 percent from 95 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Kanabec County Sheriff's Office reported 76 arrests, against 101 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kanabec County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kanabec 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 2021 the jail held about 18 people, down from about 38 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 41 beds, and it ran at 93 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 Kanabec County Sheriff's Office at jail.kanabec.org/inmatelocator (page title: Kanabec County | Inmate Locator), 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 Kanabec County
Whether someone was arrested in Kanabec County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Kanabec 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 kanabeccounty.org/departments/attorney.php, phone (320) 679-6425).
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 Kanabec 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 Kanabec County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (320) 679-6425, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Cities in Kanabec County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Kanabec County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Kanabec County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kanabec County each year?
The Kanabec County Sheriff's Office reported 134 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kanabec County?
Look on the custody page of the Kanabec County Sheriff's Office at jail.kanabec.org/inmatelocator. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Kanabec County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kanabec County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kanabec 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 Kanabec County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kanabec 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 Kanabec 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.