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 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Cheyenne County, Nebraska, has about 9,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one state 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 Cheyenne 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: Cheyenne County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cheyenne County
The Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cheyenne County. It reported 31 arrests for 2025.
One city in Cheyenne County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Sidney, 6,483 residents: 135 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Cheyenne County: the State Patrol in Cheyenne County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cheyenne 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.
- Sidney: 135 for 2025, 119 for 2024, 167 for 2023, 215 for 2022, 226 for 2021 and 223 for 2020.
- Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office: 31 for 2025, 47 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 51 for 2022, 43 for 2021 and 32 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 166 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 166 in 2025 against 166 in 2024.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 98 arrests, against 119 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cheyenne County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cheyenne 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 2019 the jail held about 11 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 24 beds, and it ran at 46 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 Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office at cheyennecountysheriff.com/inmate-roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Cheyenne County Jail Roster by CCSO), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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.
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 Cheyenne County
An arrest in Cheyenne County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Cheyenne County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cheyennecounty.nebraska.gov/district-court, phone 308-254-2814); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cheyennecounty.nebraska.gov/county-attorney, phone 308-254-6060).
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 Cheyenne 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 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 Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Sidney: 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 State Patrol in Cheyenne County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 308-254-6060, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cheyenne County District Court, through the court records page at cheyennecounty.nebraska.gov/district-court, phone 308-254-2814.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cheyenne County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Cheyenne County: Sidney. Potter, Lodgepole, Dalton and Gurley 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 Cheyenne County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cheyenne County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Sidney (6,483)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cheyenne County each year?
Sidney reported 135 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 166 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cheyenne County?
Look on the custody page of the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office at cheyennecountysheriff.com/inmate-roster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Cheyenne County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cheyenne County?
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 Cheyenne County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days.
Is this the official Cheyenne 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.