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.
Esmeralda County, Nevada, has 720 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office. 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 Esmeralda 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Esmeralda County public records, Nevada arrest records, Nevada inmate search and Nevada criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Esmeralda County
The Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Esmeralda County. It reported 13 arrests for 2019, its latest complete year.
How Many Arrests The Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office: 13 for 2019.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Esmeralda County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Esmeralda 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 3 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 24 beds, and it ran at 12 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 Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office at esmeraldajusticecourt.com/inmateSearch (page title: Esmeralda Township Justice Court, NV), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Nevada Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.nv.gov/offender-info.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Esmeralda County
Whether someone was arrested in Esmeralda County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at accessesmeralda.com/county_offices/district_attorney/index.php, phone (775) 485-6352).
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 Esmeralda 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 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 Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (775) 485-6352, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Esmeralda County each year?
The Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office reported 13 arrests to the FBI for 2019, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Esmeralda County?
Look on the custody page of the Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office at esmeraldajusticecourt.com/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Esmeralda County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Esmeralda County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Esmeralda 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 Esmeralda County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Esmeralda County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Nevada Public Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Esmeralda 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.