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 October 2, 2026.
Sarpy County, Nebraska, has about 205,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office, three 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 Sarpy 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: Sarpy County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sarpy County
The Sarpy County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sarpy County. It reported 1,137 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Sarpy County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Bellevue, 64,777 residents: 1,649 arrests reported for 2025.
- Papillion, 25,248 residents: 482 arrests reported for 2025.
- La Vista, 16,543 residents: 412 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 Sarpy County: the State Patrol in Sarpy County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sarpy 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.
- Bellevue: 1,649 for 2025, 1,559 for 2024, 1,872 for 2023, 1,603 for 2022, 1,512 for 2021 and 1,467 for 2020.
- Sarpy County Sheriff's Office: 1,137 for 2025, 789 for 2024, 708 for 2023, 748 for 2022, 542 for 2021 and 535 for 2020.
- Papillion: 482 for 2025, 508 for 2024, 539 for 2023, 451 for 2022, 455 for 2021 and 546 for 2020.
- La Vista: 412 for 2025, 408 for 2024, 293 for 2023, 233 for 2022, 207 for 2021 and 232 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,680 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,543 in 2025 against 2,475 in 2024, up 2.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,397 arrests, against 2,601 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sarpy County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sarpy County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 110 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 148 beds, and it ran at 116 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 Sarpy County Sheriff's Office at sarpy.gov/441/Department-of-Corrections (page title: Department of Corrections (JAIL) | Sarpy County, NE), phone 402-949-3876, 1206 Golden Gate Drive Papillion, NE 68046, 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 Sarpy County
An arrest in Sarpy County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: Nebraska Trial Court Case Search, the Nebraska Judicial Branch's statewide case search, with a fee per search, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sarpy.gov/284/County-Attorney, phone 402-593-2201).
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 Sarpy 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 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 Sarpy County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 402-949-3876.
- An arrest in Bellevue, Papillion or La Vista: 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 Sarpy County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 402-593-2201, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sarpy County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Sarpy County: Bellevue, Papillion and La Vista. Gretna and Springfield 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 Sarpy County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Sarpy County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sarpy County each year?
Bellevue reported 1,649 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,680 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sarpy County?
Ask the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office at 402-949-3876; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sarpy.gov/441/Department-of-Corrections.
Where are people arrested in Sarpy County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sarpy 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 Sarpy County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sarpy 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 Sarpy 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.