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.
Le Flore County, Oklahoma, has about 50,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Le Flore County Sheriff's Office, 11 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 Le Flore 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Le Flore County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Le Flore County
The Le Flore County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Le Flore County. It reported 78 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Le Flore County: Le Flore County Detention Center (other); Carl Albert State College at Poteau (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Le Flore 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.
- Poteau: 215 for 2025, 216 for 2024, 183 for 2023, 174 for 2022, 205 for 2021 and 239 for 2020.
- Arkoma: 93 for 2025, 53 for 2024, 22 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 1 for 2021 and 15 for 2020.
- Le Flore County Sheriff's Office: 78 for 2025, 69 for 2024, 83 for 2023, 99 for 2022, 126 for 2021 and 128 for 2020.
- Spiro: 58 for 2025, 34 for 2024, 59 for 2023, 47 for 2022, 16 for 2021 and 15 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Pocola: 25 for 2025, 19 for 2024, 18 for 2023, 24 for 2022, 39 for 2021 and 37 for 2020.
- Talihina: 21 for 2025, 35 for 2024, 27 for 2023, 11 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 9 for 2020.
- Heavener: 16 for 2025, 12 for 2024, 13 for 2023, 24 for 2022, 30 for 2021 and 20 for 2020.
- Wister: 9 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 5 for 2022 and 6 for 2021.
- Panama: 3 for 2025, 8 for 2023 and 9 for 2022; 2024 is missing months.
- Bokoshe: 1 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 6 for 2023, 0 for 2021 and 5 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
- Howe: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 6 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Shady Point: 0 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 5 for 2022, 9 for 2021 and 17 for 2020.
Together, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 519 arrests that year. The 11 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 516 in 2025 against 449 in 2024, up 15 percent.
Through July 2026, the nine agencies with every month so far on file reported 271 arrests, against 301 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Le Flore County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Le Flore 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 130 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 186 beds, and it ran at 87 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 Le Flore County Sheriff's Office at leflorecountyok.gov (page title: LeFlore County Sheriffs Office), phone 918-647-3426, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Le Flore County
For Le Flore 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 Le Flore 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 Le Flore County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 918-647-3426.
- An arrest by Le Flore County Detention Center or Carl Albert State College at Poteau: the records office of the agency involved.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at leflorecountyok.gov/open-record-requests-foia (page title: Open Record Requests (FOIA) | LeFlore County Sheriffs Office).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Le Flore County each year?
Poteau reported 215 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 12 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 519 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Le Flore County?
Ask the Le Flore County Sheriff's Office at 918-647-3426; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at leflorecountyok.gov.
Where are people arrested in Le Flore County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Le Flore County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Le Flore 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 Le Flore County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Le Flore 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 leflorecountyok.gov/open-record-requests-foia.
Is this the official Le Flore 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.