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 25, 2026.
Guadalupe County, New Mexico, has about 4,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Guadalupe 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: Guadalupe County public records, New Mexico arrest records, New Mexico inmate search and New Mexico criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Guadalupe County
The Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Guadalupe County. It reported 29 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Guadalupe County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Santa Rosa, 2,824 residents: 43 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Guadalupe 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.
- Santa Rosa: 43 for 2024, 28 for 2023, 24 for 2022, 45 for 2021 and 119 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office: 29 for 2025, 33 for 2024, 45 for 2023, 34 for 2022, 24 for 2021 and 128 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 76 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 76 in 2024 against 73 in 2023, up 4.1 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Guadalupe County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Guadalupe 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 17 people. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Guadalupe County
Whether someone was arrested in Guadalupe County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Guadalupe County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at caselookup.nmcourts.gov/caselookup/app); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at nmdas.com/judicial-districts/fourth-judicial-district, phone (505) 425-6746).
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 Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Santa Rosa: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (505) 425-6746, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Guadalupe County, through the court records page at caselookup.nmcourts.gov/caselookup/app.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Guadalupe County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Guadalupe County: Santa Rosa. Vaughn has 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 Guadalupe County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Guadalupe County each year?
Santa Rosa reported 43 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 76 between them.
Where are people arrested in Guadalupe County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Guadalupe County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe 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.