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 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Lyon County, Nevada, has about 64,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lyon 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 Lyon 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: Lyon County public records, Nevada arrest records, Nevada inmate search and Nevada criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lyon County
The Lyon County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lyon County. It reported 1,327 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Lyon County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Yerington, 3,199 residents: 54 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 Lyon 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.
- Lyon County Sheriff's Office: 1,327 for 2025, 1,142 for 2024, 1,215 for 2023, 1,196 for 2022, 1,406 for 2021 and 1,236 for 2020.
- Yerington: 54 for 2025, 9 for 2020 and 98 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,381 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,327 in 2025 against 1,142 in 2024, up 16 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lyon County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lyon 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 92 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 165 beds, and it ran at 56 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Lyon County
For Lyon County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lyon-county.org/231/District-Attorney, phone (775) 463-6511).
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 Lyon 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 Lyon County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Yerington: 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) 463-6511, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Cities in Lyon County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Lyon County: Yerington. Fernley 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 Lyon County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lyon County each year?
The Lyon County Sheriff's Office reported 1,327 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,381 between them.
Where are people arrested in Lyon County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lyon County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lyon County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Lyon 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 Lyon County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lyon 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 Lyon 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.