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 1, 2026.
Hughes County, Oklahoma, has about 13,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hughes County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Hughes 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: Hughes County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hughes County
The Hughes County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hughes County. It reported 20 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Holdenville, 5,893 residents: 95 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wetumka, 1,127 residents: 35 arrests reported for 2025.
- Calvin, 309 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 Allen Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Hughes County, so its arrests are not broken out for Hughes County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hughes 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.
- Holdenville: 95 for 2025, 126 for 2024, 156 for 2023, 52 for 2021, 77 for 2020 and 123 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Wetumka: 35 for 2025, 35 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 64 for 2022, 82 for 2021 and 53 for 2020.
- Hughes County Sheriff's Office: 20 for 2025, 29 for 2024, 21 for 2023, 35 for 2022, 51 for 2021 and 108 for 2020.
- Calvin: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 2 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 150 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 150 in 2025 against 190 in 2024, down 21 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 109 arrests, against 86 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hughes County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hughes 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 26 people, down from about 44 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 36 beds, and it ran at 122 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Hughes County
Whether someone was arrested in Hughes County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 kgou.org/tags/district-attorneys).
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 Hughes 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 Hughes County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Holdenville, Wetumka or Calvin: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Hughes County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the 11 cities in Hughes County: Holdenville, Wetumka and Calvin. Dustin, Stuart, Spaulding, Lamar, Gerty, Horntown, Atwood and Yeager 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 Hughes County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hughes County each year?
Holdenville reported 95 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 150 between them.
Where are people arrested in Hughes County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hughes County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hughes 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 Hughes County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hughes 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 Hughes 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.