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 October 2, 2026.
Comanche County, Oklahoma, has about 121,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Comanche County Sheriff's Office, eight city agencies and two 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 Comanche 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: Comanche County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Comanche County
The Comanche County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Comanche County. It reported 39 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside eight 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:
- Lawton, 90,027 residents: 2,243 arrests reported for 2025.
- Elgin, 3,613 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cache, 3,179 residents: 48 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fletcher, 1,251 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Geronimo, 1,160 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sterling, 668 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Medicine Park, 474 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2025.
- Chattanooga, 408 residents: 15 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 Comanche County: Cameron University (campus police); Lawton Public Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Comanche 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.
- Lawton: 2,243 for 2025, 1,866 for 2024, 1,941 for 2023, 1,763 for 2022, 4,613 for 2020 and 4,877 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Cache: 48 for 2025, 56 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 42 for 2022, 60 for 2021 and 82 for 2020.
- Comanche County Sheriff's Office: 39 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 9 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 18 for 2020.
- Chattanooga: 15 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 3 for 2021 and 1 for 2020.
- Elgin: 11 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 18 for 2023, 8 for 2022, 1 for 2021 and 4 for 2020.
- Geronimo: 6 for 2025, 14 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 13 for 2022 and 16 for 2021.
- Medicine Park: 6 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 2 for 2021 and 4 for 2020.
- Fletcher: 3 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 1 for 2021 and 4 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
- Sterling: 0 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 3 for 2023 and 5 for 2022.
Together, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,371 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,371 in 2025 against 1,975 in 2024, up 20 percent.
Through June 2026, the eight agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,472 arrests, against 1,075 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Comanche County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Comanche 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 2024 the jail held about 23 people, down from about 400 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 353 beds, and it ran at 114 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 Comanche County Sheriff's Office at comanchecountyok.gov/227/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Comanche County, OK), phone 580-353-4282, 315 SW 5th Street Room 102 Lawton, OK 73501, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 2, 2026.
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 Comanche County
An arrest in Comanche County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 comanchecountyok.gov/204/District-Attorney, phone 580-585-4444).
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 Comanche 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 Comanche County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 580-353-4282.
- An arrest in Lawton, Elgin, Cache, Fletcher, Geronimo, Sterling 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 Cameron University or Lawton Public Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 580-585-4444, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at comanchecountyok.gov/283/Records-Request (page title: Records Request | Comanche County, OK).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Comanche County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the ten cities in Comanche County: Lawton, Elgin, Cache, Fletcher, Geronimo, Sterling, Medicine Park and Chattanooga. Indiahoma and Faxon 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 Comanche County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Comanche County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lawton (90,027)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Comanche County each year?
Lawton reported 2,243 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the nine agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,371 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Comanche County?
Ask the Comanche County Sheriff's Office at 580-353-4282; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at comanchecountyok.gov/227/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Comanche County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Comanche County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Comanche 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 Comanche County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Comanche 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at comanchecountyok.gov/283/Records-Request.
Is this the official Comanche 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.