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.
Canadian County, Oklahoma, has about 182,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Canadian County Sheriff's Office and six city 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 Canadian 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: Canadian County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Canadian County
The Canadian County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Canadian County. It reported 204 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six 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:
- Yukon, 27,068 residents: 653 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mustang, 23,965 residents: 481 arrests reported for 2025.
- El Reno, 20,041 residents: 514 arrests reported for 2025.
- Piedmont, 9,092 residents: 58 arrests reported for 2025.
- Union City, 2,075 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Calumet, 506 residents: 0 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 Geary Police Department, the Okarche Police Department and the Oklahoma City Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Canadian County, so their arrests are not broken out for Canadian County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Canadian 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.
- Yukon: 653 for 2025, 691 for 2024, 673 for 2023, 715 for 2022, 712 for 2021 and 646 for 2020.
- El Reno: 514 for 2025, 483 for 2024, 509 for 2023, 382 for 2022, 474 for 2021 and 475 for 2020.
- Mustang: 481 for 2025, 641 for 2024, 756 for 2023, 318 for 2021, 828 for 2020 and 1,021 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Canadian County Sheriff's Office: 204 for 2025, 264 for 2024, 214 for 2023, 244 for 2022, 269 for 2021 and 192 for 2020.
- Piedmont: 58 for 2025, 49 for 2024, 54 for 2023, 25 for 2022, 30 for 2021 and 23 for 2020.
- Union City: 33 for 2025, 33 for 2024, 56 for 2023, 74 for 2022, 111 for 2021 and 113 for 2020.
- Calumet: 0 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 2 for 2023 and 5 for 2022.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,943 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,943 in 2025 against 2,162 in 2024, down 10 percent.
Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 933 arrests, against 792 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Canadian County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Canadian 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 2024 the jail held about 1 people, down from about 190 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 247 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 custody page of the Canadian County Sheriff's Office at ccsheriff.net/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Canadian 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Oklahoma Department of Corrections lists its inmates at okoffender.doc.ok.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Canadian County
Whether someone was arrested in Canadian County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Canadian 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; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at canadiancounty.org/m/directory/department?did=39, phone (405) 262-0177).
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 Canadian 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 Canadian County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Yukon, Mustang, El Reno, Piedmont, Union City or Calumet: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (405) 262-0177, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Canadian County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the six cities in Canadian County: Yukon, Mustang, El Reno, Piedmont, Union City and Calumet.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Canadian County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Canadian County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Canadian County each year?
Yukon reported 653 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,943 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Canadian County?
Look on the custody page of the Canadian County Sheriff's Office at ccsheriff.net/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Canadian County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Canadian County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Canadian 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 Canadian County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Canadian 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 Canadian 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.