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 28, 2026.
Curry County, New Mexico, has about 47,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Curry County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Curry County. 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: Curry County public records, New Mexico arrest records, New Mexico inmate search and New Mexico criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Curry County
The Curry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Curry County. It reported 176 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Clovis, 37,555 residents: 391 arrests reported for 2023.
- Texico, 926 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2019.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Curry 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.
- Clovis: 391 for 2023, 333 for 2022, 303 for 2021 and 1,342 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Curry County Sheriff's Office: 176 for 2025, 290 for 2023, 303 for 2022, 464 for 2021 and 343 for 2020; 2024 is missing months.
- Texico: 14 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 681 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 681 in 2023 against 636 in 2022, up 7.1 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Curry County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Curry 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 2023 the jail held about 150 people, down from about 210 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 265 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Curry County Sheriff's Office at currycountynm.gov/elected-officials/sheriff-s-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Curry County, NM), phone (575) 769-2335, 700 North Main Street, Suite #4 Clovis, NM 88101, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Curry County
Whether someone was arrested in Curry County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Curry County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ninthdistrict.nmcourts.gov/services-programs/records-requests); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 9thda.com).
Statewide, New Mexico Courts Case Lookup is the New Mexico Judiciary's free statewide case search.
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 Curry 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 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 Curry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (575) 769-2335.
- An arrest in Clovis or Texico: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Curry County, through the court records page at ninthdistrict.nmcourts.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Curry County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Curry County: Clovis and Texico. Melrose and Grady 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 District Court for Curry County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Curry County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Clovis (37,555)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Curry County each year?
Clovis reported 391 arrests to the FBI for 2023, and the two agencies with every month of 2023 on file reported 681 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Curry County?
Ask the Curry County Sheriff's Office at (575) 769-2335; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at currycountynm.gov.
Where are people arrested in Curry County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Curry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Curry County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Curry 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 Curry County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Curry County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Curry 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.