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 on September 23, 2026.
Sibley County, Minnesota, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sibley County Sheriff's Office and five city 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 Sibley 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: Sibley County public records, Minnesota arrest records, Minnesota inmate search and Minnesota criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sibley County
The Sibley County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sibley County. It reported 50 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five 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:
- Gaylord, 2,334 residents: 115 arrests reported for 2025.
- Arlington, 2,314 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2025.
- Winthrop, 1,332 residents: 25 arrests reported for 2024.
- Henderson, 988 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gibbon, 788 residents: 3 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sibley 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.
- Gaylord: 115 for 2025, 91 for 2024, 145 for 2023, 113 for 2022, 59 for 2021 and 83 for 2020.
- Sibley County Sheriff's Office: 50 for 2025, 50 for 2024, 45 for 2023, 51 for 2022, 69 for 2021 and 78 for 2020.
- Arlington: 15 for 2025, 20 for 2024, 30 for 2023, 11 for 2022, 28 for 2021 and 12 for 2020.
- Gibbon: 3 for 2025, 12 for 2024 and 45 for 2023.
- Henderson: 0 for 2025, 3 for 2024, 1 for 2023 and 0 for 2022.
- Winthrop: 25 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 25 for 2022 and 22 for 2021.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 183 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 183 in 2025 against 176 in 2024, up 4 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 109 arrests, against 122 in the same months of 2025.
Winthrop reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sibley County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Sibley 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 5 people, down from about 13 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 19 beds, and it ran at 68 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Sibley County
Whether someone was arrested in Sibley County, 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 sibleycounty.gov/199/History-of-the-County-Attorneys-Office, phone 507-237-4096).
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 Sibley 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 Sibley County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Gaylord, Arlington, Winthrop, Henderson or Gibbon: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 507-237-4096, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Cities in Sibley County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the seven cities in Sibley County: Gaylord, Arlington, Winthrop, Henderson and Gibbon. Green Isle and New Auburn have 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 Sibley County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sibley County each year?
Gaylord reported 115 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 183 between them.
Where are people arrested in Sibley County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sibley County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sibley 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 Sibley County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sibley 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 Sibley 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.