Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 26, 2026.
Mesquite, Nevada, in Clark County, has about 24,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city 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 Clark County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Mesquite public records, Clark County arrest records, Nevada arrest records and Nevada inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Mesquite
The FBI lists Mesquite with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Mesquite Police Department. It reported 700 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clark County: Nevada Gaming Control Board in Clark County and Secretary of State Securities Division Enforcement Section (state agency); the University Police Services (campus police); the Clark County Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, Arson Bomb Unit, the Clark County School District, Las Vegas Municipal Court and one more (other).
How Many Arrests Mesquite 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.
- Mesquite: 700 for 2025, 801 for 2024, 914 for 2023, 1,197 for 2022, 1,297 for 2021 and 816 for 2020.
Mesquite's 700 arrests in 2025 were down 13 percent from 801 in 2024.
Across Clark County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 73,362 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mesquite Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Mesquite 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 2024 the jail held about 3,530 people, down from about 5,000 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 5,548 beds, and it ran at 62 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the sheriff's office at clarkcountynv.gov/government/departments/detention_center/inmate-se... (page title: Clark County Inmate Search), phone (702) 671-3900, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Nevada Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.nv.gov/offender-info.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Mesquite
An arrest in Mesquite can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the sheriff's office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Clark County, kept by the County Clerk, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clarkcountynv.gov/government/departments/district_attorney/division...).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at cvpublicaccess.co.clark.nv.us/eservices/home.page.2 (page title: NV | Clark County Justice Court Case Search), belongs to a lower court, not to the District Court for Clark County.
Nevada does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division 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 Mesquite
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 Nevada Public Records Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying; staff time only for extraordinary requests.
- An arrest by the Mesquite police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at mesquitenv.gov/faqs/discovery-or-police-report-requests (page title: Discovery or Police Report Requests), phone (702) 346-8831, 10 E. Mesquite Blvd. Mesquite, NV 89027, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- 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: in the District Court for Clark County it is kept by the County Clerk. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at cvpublicaccess.co.clark.nv.us, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clarkcountynv.gov (page title: Public Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
The Clark County guide covers every agency in the county: Clark County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mesquite each year?
Mesquite reported 700 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Mesquite?
Look on the custody page of the sheriff's office at clarkcountynv.gov, or call (702) 671-3900. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Mesquite booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mesquite?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Clark County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Nevada Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Mesquite?
From the agency that made the arrest: the sheriff's office or the city's police. Under the Nevada Public Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clarkcountynv.gov.
Is this the official Mesquite 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.