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 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Crete, Nebraska, in Saline County, has about 7,600 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 Saline 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: Crete public records, Saline County arrest records, Nebraska arrest records and Nebraska inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Crete
The FBI lists Crete with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Crete Police Department. It reported 113 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 Saline County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 198 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Saline County: the State Patrol in Saline County (state police).
How Many Arrests Crete Reports
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.
- Crete: 113 for 2025, 289 for 2024, 199 for 2022, 199 for 2021, 193 for 2020 and 194 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Crete's 113 arrests in 2025 were down 61 percent from 289 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Crete reported 69 arrests, against 92 in the same months of 2025.
Across Saline County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 311 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Crete Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Crete 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 2019 the jail held about 85 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 90 beds, and it ran at 94 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services lists its inmates at dcs-inmatesearch.ne.gov/Corrections/COR_input.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Crete
Whether someone was arrested in Crete, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Saline County District Court, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at salinecountyne.gov/attorney-county, phone 402-821-2531).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov/courts/saline-county-court (page title: Saline County Court | Nebraska Judicial Branch), phone 402-821-2131, belongs to a lower court, not to the Saline County District Court.
Statewide, Nebraska Trial Court Case Search is the Nebraska Judicial Branch's statewide case search, with a fee per search.
Nebraska is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online, through the Nebraska State Patrol. 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 Crete
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the agency must answer within 4 business days, and it may charge copying, and staff time after the first four hours.
- An arrest by the Crete police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at crete.ne.gov/vnews/display.v/SEC/Departments%7CPolice (page title: City of Crete Nebraska | Police | Administration Main), phone 402.826.4311, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Saline County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 402-821-2531, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Saline County District Court it is kept by the Clerk of the District Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov, phone 402-821-2131, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Saline County guide covers every agency in the county: Saline County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Crete each year?
Crete reported 113 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Crete booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Saline County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Crete?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Nebraska State Patrol: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Crete?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Crete police for its own arrests, the Saline County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days.
Is this the official Crete 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.