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.
Bryan County, Oklahoma, has about 50,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bryan County Sheriff's Office, seven city agencies and three campus, state or other agencies. 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 Bryan County District Court. 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: Bryan County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bryan County
The Bryan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bryan County. It reported 77 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside seven of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Durant, 20,908 residents: 939 arrests reported for 2024.
- Calera, 3,101 residents: 76 arrests reported for 2025.
- Colbert, 1,105 residents: 49 arrests reported for 2025.
- Caddo, 1,075 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bokchito, 612 residents: 27 arrests reported for 2025.
- Achille, 429 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bennington, 322 residents: 2 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bryan County: Victory Life and Colbert Campus (other); Southeastern Oklahoma State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bryan 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.
- Bryan County Sheriff's Office: 77 for 2025, 104 for 2024, 106 for 2023, 159 for 2022, 150 for 2021 and 188 for 2020.
- Calera: 76 for 2025, 78 for 2024, 84 for 2023, 95 for 2021 and 105 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Colbert: 49 for 2025, 28 for 2024, 40 for 2023, 30 for 2022, 30 for 2021 and 40 for 2020.
- Bokchito: 27 for 2025, 23 for 2024, 30 for 2023, 17 for 2022, 31 for 2021 and 31 for 2020.
- Caddo: 7 for 2025, 15 for 2024, 16 for 2023, 14 for 2022, 19 for 2021 and 20 for 2020.
- Achille: 4 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 28 for 2021 and 32 for 2020.
- Bennington: 2 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 1 for 2021.
- Durant: 939 for 2024, 788 for 2023, 732 for 2022, 662 for 2021, 2,016 for 2020 and 2,118 for 2019.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 242 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 242 in 2025 against 249 in 2024, down 2.8 percent.
Through June 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 174 arrests, against 110 in the same months of 2025.
Durant reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bryan County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bryan 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 2023 the jail held about 100 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2020, the last year with a capacity figure, was 159 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 Bryan County Sheriff's Office at bryancountyso.com/inmate-search.php (page title: Inmate Search | Bryan 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 Bryan County
Whether someone was arrested in Bryan County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Bryan County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; OSCN and ODCR, the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Bryan 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 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 Bryan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Durant, Calera, Colbert, Caddo, Bokchito, Achille or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Victory Life, Southeastern Oklahoma State University or Colbert Campus: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Bryan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the 13 cities in Bryan County: Durant, Calera, Colbert, Caddo, Bokchito, Achille and Bennington. Silo, Mead, Kenefic, Kemp, Armstrong and Hendrix have 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 Bryan County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bryan County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Durant (20,908)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bryan County each year?
The Bryan County Sheriff's Office reported 77 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 242 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bryan County?
Look on the custody page of the Bryan County Sheriff's Office at bryancountyso.com/inmate-search.php, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Bryan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bryan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bryan County?
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 Bryan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bryan County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the answer is due promptly; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Bryan 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.