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.
Garvin County, Oklahoma, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Garvin County Sheriff's Office, seven city agencies and one other 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 Garvin 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: Garvin County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Garvin County
The Garvin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Garvin County. It reported 376 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in Garvin County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Pauls Valley, 6,112 residents: 204 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lindsay, 2,910 residents: 37 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wynnewood, 1,944 residents: 30 arrests reported for 2025.
- Stratford, 1,427 residents: 18 arrests reported for 2025.
- Maysville, 1,087 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2025.
- Elmore City, 751 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2023.
- Paoli, 591 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 Garvin County: Wynnewood Public Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Garvin 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.
- Garvin County Sheriff's Office: 376 for 2025, 298 for 2024, 382 for 2023, 340 for 2022, 499 for 2021 and 427 for 2020.
- Pauls Valley: 204 for 2025, 215 for 2024, 307 for 2023, 203 for 2022, 220 for 2021 and 140 for 2020.
- Lindsay: 37 for 2025, 53 for 2024, 84 for 2023, 72 for 2022, 84 for 2021 and 56 for 2020.
- Wynnewood: 30 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 28 for 2023, 22 for 2022, 39 for 2021 and 20 for 2020.
- Maysville: 22 for 2025, 69 for 2024, 74 for 2023, 44 for 2022, 36 for 2021 and 31 for 2020.
- Stratford: 18 for 2025, 31 for 2024, 39 for 2023, 40 for 2022, 28 for 2021 and 22 for 2020.
- Paoli: 0 for 2025, 2 for 2023, 8 for 2022, 12 for 2021, 4 for 2020 and 10 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Elmore City: 3 for 2023, 13 for 2022, 20 for 2021, 18 for 2020 and 29 for 2019.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 687 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 687 in 2025 against 687 in 2024.
Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 307 arrests, against 388 in the same months of 2025.
Elmore City reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Garvin County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Garvin 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 71 people, up from about 70 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 72 beds, and it ran at 97 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 Garvin County Sheriff's Office at garvincountysheriff.net/detention-center (page title: Garvin County Sheriffs Office | Detention Center), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Garvin County
For Garvin County the place to look is 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 Garvin 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 Garvin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Pauls Valley, Lindsay, Wynnewood, Stratford, Maysville, Elmore City or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Wynnewood Public Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Garvin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the nine cities in Garvin County: Pauls Valley, Lindsay, Wynnewood, Stratford, Maysville, Elmore City and Paoli. Katie and Foster 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 Garvin County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Garvin County each year?
The Garvin County Sheriff's Office reported 376 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 687 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Garvin County?
Ask the Garvin County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at garvincountysheriff.net/detention-center.
Where are people arrested in Garvin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Garvin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Garvin 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 Garvin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Garvin 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 Garvin 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.