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.
Pershing County, Nevada, has about 6,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pershing 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 Pershing 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: Pershing County public records, Nevada arrest records, Nevada inmate search and Nevada criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pershing County
The Pershing County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pershing County. It reported 91 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
One city in Pershing County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Lovelock, 1,823 residents: 61 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Lovelock 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.
- Lovelock: 61 for 2023, 17 for 2020 and 38 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Pershing County Sheriff's Office: 91 for 2020.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pershing County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pershing County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 20 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 26 beds, and it ran at 77 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Pershing County Sheriff's Office at pershingcountynv.gov/government/sheriff_s_office/index.php (page title: pershingcountynv), phone (775) 273-2641, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Pershing County
Whether someone was arrested in Pershing County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Pershing County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at pershingcountynv.gov/government/11th_judicial_district_court/index.php, phone (775) 623-6371); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pershingcountynv.gov/government/district_attorney/index.php, phone (775) 273-2613).
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 Pershing 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 Pershing County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (775) 273-2641.
- An arrest in Lovelock: 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) 273-2613, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Pershing County, through the court records page at pershingcountynv.gov, phone (775) 623-6371.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Cities in Pershing County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Lovelock, the one city in Pershing 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 Pershing County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pershing County each year?
Lovelock reported 61 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pershing County?
Ask the Pershing County Sheriff's Office at (775) 273-2641; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pershingcountynv.gov.
Where are people arrested in Pershing County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pershing County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pershing County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Pershing 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 Pershing County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pershing 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 Pershing 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.