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 24, 2026.
Roosevelt County, Montana, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Roosevelt 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: Roosevelt County public records, Montana arrest records, Montana inmate search and Montana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Roosevelt County
The Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Roosevelt County. It reported 152 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Roosevelt County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Wolf Point, 2,522 residents: 136 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Roosevelt County
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.
- Wolf Point: 136 for 2024, 210 for 2023, 260 for 2022, 276 for 2021, 275 for 2020 and 398 for 2019.
- Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office: 152 for 2025, 111 for 2023, 97 for 2022, 90 for 2021, 180 for 2020 and 286 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 321 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 321 in 2023 against 357 in 2022, down 10 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Roosevelt County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Roosevelt 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 45 people, up from about 22 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 52 beds, and it ran at 87 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 Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office at rooseveltcountymt.gov/sheriff-coroner (page title: Sheriff's Office -), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Montana Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at offendersearch.mt.gov/conweb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Roosevelt County
An arrest in Roosevelt County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Roosevelt County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.mt.gov); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at rooseveltcountymt.gov/county-attorney, phone (406)653-6295).
Montana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CHOPRS service lets anyone search public criminal history online by name, through the Montana Department of Justice. 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 Roosevelt County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Montana Public Records Act the agency must answer in a timely manner; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of fulfilling the request.
- An arrest by the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Wolf Point: 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, (406)653-6295, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Roosevelt County District Court, through the court records page at courts.mt.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Roosevelt County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Roosevelt County: Wolf Point. Poplar, Culbertson, Bainville and Froid 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 Roosevelt County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Roosevelt County each year?
Wolf Point reported 136 arrests to the FBI for 2024. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Roosevelt County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 321 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Roosevelt County?
Ask the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at rooseveltcountymt.gov/sheriff-coroner.
Where are people arrested in Roosevelt County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Roosevelt County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Montana Department of Justice: the CHOPRS service lets anyone search public criminal history online by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Montana Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Roosevelt County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Montana Public Records Act the answer is due in a timely manner; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Roosevelt 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.