Los Lunas Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Los Lunas

The FBI lists Los Lunas with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Los Lunas Police Department. It reported 467 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 Valencia County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 832 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Valencia County: the University of New Mexico at Valencia (campus police).

How Many Arrests Los Lunas Reports

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.

• Los Lunas: 467 for 2025, 449 for 2024, 519 for 2023, 412 for 2022, 250 for 2021 and 266 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.

Los Lunas's 467 arrests in 2025 were up 4 percent from 449 in 2024.

Through June 2026, Los Lunas reported 212 arrests, against 218 in the same months of 2025.

Across Valencia County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,094 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Los Lunas Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Los Lunas 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 2023 the jail held about 130 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 172 beds, and it ran at 88 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 Valencia County Sheriff's Office at valencianm.gov/our-county/sheriff (page title: Valencia County Sheriff's Office | Law Enforcement Services in New Mexico | Valencia County), phone (505) 827-9151, 123 Don Pasqual Rd NW Los Lunas, NM 87031, Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.

A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the New Mexico Corrections Department, whose inmate locator is at cd.nm.gov.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Los Lunas

An arrest in Los Lunas can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: New Mexico Courts Case Lookup, the New Mexico Judiciary's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 13th.nmdas.com/valencia, phone 505-861-0311).

New Mexico does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Los Lunas

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Inspection of Public Records Act the agency must answer within 15 calendar days, after acknowledging the request within 3 business days, and it may charge copying at no more than $1 a page.

• An arrest by the Los Lunas police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at loslunasnm.gov/1258/Public-Records-Inspection (page title: Public Records Inspection | Los Lunas, NM), phone (505) 839-3855, 660 Main St. NW Los Lunas, NM 87031, Monday - Friday, 8am to 5pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Valencia County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (505) 827-9151.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 505-861-0311, handles discovery for pending cases.
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.

The Valencia County guide covers every agency in the county: Valencia County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Los Lunas each year?

Los Lunas reported 467 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Los Lunas?

Ask the Valencia County Sheriff's Office at (505) 827-9151; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at valencianm.gov/our-county/sheriff.

Where are people arrested in Los Lunas booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Valencia County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Los Lunas?

The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Valencia County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Inspection of Public Records Act.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Los Lunas?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Los Lunas police for its own arrests, the Valencia County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Inspection of Public Records Act the answer is due within 15 calendar days, after acknowledging the request within 3 business days.

Is this the official Los Lunas 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.