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.
Gage County, Nebraska, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gage County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies 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 Gage 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: Gage County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gage County
The Gage County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gage County. It reported 59 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Gage County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Beatrice, 12,290 residents: 363 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wymore, 1,345 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2021.
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 Gage County: the State Patrol in Gage County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Gage 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.
- Beatrice: 363 for 2025, 372 for 2024, 327 for 2023, 371 for 2022, 307 for 2021 and 363 for 2020.
- Gage County Sheriff's Office: 59 for 2025, 207 for 2022, 220 for 2020 and 230 for 2019; 2021, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Wymore: 15 for 2021.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 422 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 363 in 2025 against 372 in 2024, down 2.4 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gage County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gage 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 41 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 28 beds, and it ran at 146 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 Gage County Sheriff's Office at gagecountyne.gov/sheriff-office (page title: Sheriff Office | Gage County), phone 402-223-5221, 612 Lincoln St. Beatrice, NE 68310, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, whose inmate locator is at dcs-inmatesearch.ne.gov/Corrections/COR_input.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Gage County
Whether someone was arrested in Gage County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Gage 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 gagecountyne.gov/attorney-county, phone 402-223-1344).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov/courts/gage-county-court (page title: Gage County Court | Nebraska Judicial Branch), phone 402-223-1323, belongs to a lower court, not to the Gage 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 Gage 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 Gage County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 402-223-5221.
- An arrest in Beatrice or Wymore: 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 Gage County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 402-223-1344, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Gage 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/courts/gage-county-court, phone 402-223-1323, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gagecountyne.gov (page title: Freedom of Information Request | Gage County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Gage County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the 12 cities in Gage County: Beatrice and Wymore. Adams, Cortland, Blue Springs, Clatonia, Odell, Pickrell, Filley, Barneston, Virginia and Liberty 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 Gage County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Gage County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Beatrice (12,290)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gage County each year?
Beatrice reported 363 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 422 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gage County?
Ask the Gage County Sheriff's Office at 402-223-5221; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gagecountyne.gov/sheriff-office.
Where are people arrested in Gage County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gage County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gage 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 Gage County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gage 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gagecountyne.gov.
Is this the official Gage 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.