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 on September 24, 2026.
Humboldt County, Nevada, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Humboldt 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 Humboldt 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: Humboldt County public records, Nevada arrest records, Nevada inmate search and Nevada criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Humboldt County
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Humboldt County. It reported 289 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Humboldt County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Winnemucca, 8,225 residents: 488 arrests reported for 2025.
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 Humboldt 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.
- Winnemucca: 488 for 2025, 394 for 2024, 366 for 2023, 308 for 2022, 364 for 2021 and 298 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: 289 for 2025, 298 for 2024, 273 for 2023, 244 for 2022, 200 for 2021 and 257 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 777 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 777 in 2025 against 692 in 2024, up 12 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 446 arrests, against 432 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Humboldt County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Humboldt 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 28 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 85 beds, and it ran at 33 percent of it that year. 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 Nevada Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.nv.gov/offender-info.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Humboldt County
For Humboldt County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at humboldtcountynv.gov/178/District-Attorney, phone 775-623-6360).
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 Humboldt County
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 Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Winnemucca: 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, 775-623-6360, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at humboldtgov.nextrequest.com/requests/new (page title: NextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Cities in Humboldt County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Winnemucca, the one city in Humboldt County.
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 Humboldt County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Humboldt County each year?
Winnemucca reported 488 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 777 between them.
Where are people arrested in Humboldt County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Humboldt County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Humboldt 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 Humboldt County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Humboldt 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at humboldtgov.nextrequest.com/requests/new.
Is this the official Humboldt 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.