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.
Weatherford, Oklahoma, in Custer County, has about 12,000 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 Custer County District Court. 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: Weatherford public records, Custer County arrest records, Oklahoma arrest records and Oklahoma inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Weatherford
The FBI lists Weatherford with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Weatherford Police Department. It reported 172 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.
Outside the city, the Custer County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 48 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Custer County: Southwestern Oklahoma State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Weatherford 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.
- Weatherford: 172 for 2025, 137 for 2024, 178 for 2023, 281 for 2022, 218 for 2021 and 338 for 2020.
Weatherford's 172 arrests in 2025 were up 26 percent from 137 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Weatherford reported 129 arrests, against 96 in the same months of 2025.
Across Custer County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 456 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Weatherford Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Weatherford 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 110 people, down from about 110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 189 beds, and it ran at 57 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 Custer County Sheriff's Office at custercountysheriff.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Custer County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, 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 Oklahoma Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at okoffender.doc.ok.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Weatherford
Whether someone was arrested in Weatherford, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Custer County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Custer County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at custer.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 580.323.3233).
Statewide, OSCN and ODCR is the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court.
Oklahoma is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15 a search, through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Weatherford
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the agency must answer promptly; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge copying at no more than 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Weatherford police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofweatherford.com/police (page title: Police | City of Weatherford), phone 580-772-7791, 615 E. Franklin Ave, Weatherford, OK 73096, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Custer County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Custer County District Court, through the court records page at custer.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 580.323.3233.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Custer County guide covers every agency in the county: Custer County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Weatherford each year?
Weatherford reported 172 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Weatherford?
Look on the custody page of the Custer County Sheriff's Office at custercountysheriff.com/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Weatherford booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Custer County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Weatherford?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Weatherford?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Weatherford police for its own arrests, the Custer County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the answer is due promptly; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Weatherford 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.