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 between September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Custer County, Oklahoma, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Custer County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and one campus 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 Custer 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: Custer County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Custer County
The Custer County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Custer County. It reported 48 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five 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:
- Weatherford, 12,047 residents: 172 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clinton, 8,355 residents: 233 arrests reported for 2025.
- Thomas, 1,138 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Arapaho, 662 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Butler, 207 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Custer County: Southwestern Oklahoma State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Custer 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.
- Clinton: 233 for 2025, 224 for 2024, 236 for 2023, 282 for 2022, 322 for 2021 and 350 for 2020.
- Weatherford: 172 for 2025, 137 for 2024, 178 for 2023, 281 for 2022, 218 for 2021 and 338 for 2020.
- Custer County Sheriff's Office: 48 for 2025, 42 for 2024, 50 for 2023, 48 for 2022, 56 for 2021 and 44 for 2020.
- Thomas: 3 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 4 for 2021 and 11 for 2020.
- Arapaho: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- Butler: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 456 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 456 in 2025 against 408 in 2024, up 12 percent.
Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 303 arrests, against 245 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Custer County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Custer 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 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 Custer County
Whether someone was arrested in Custer County, 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 Custer County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Custer County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Weatherford, Clinton, Thomas, Arapaho or Butler: 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 Southwestern Oklahoma State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Custer County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the six cities in Custer County: Weatherford, Clinton, Thomas, Arapaho and Butler. Custer City has 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 Custer County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Custer County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Weatherford (12,047)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Custer County each year?
Clinton reported 233 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 456 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Custer County?
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 Custer County 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 Custer 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 Custer County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Custer 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 Custer 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.