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 25, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Mayes County, Oklahoma, has about 40,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Mayes County Sheriff's Office, eight city agencies and one state 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 Mayes 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: Mayes County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Mayes County
The Mayes County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Mayes County. It reported 156 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists eight cities in Mayes County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Pryor Creek, 9,700 residents: 275 arrests reported for 2025.
- Chouteau, 2,154 residents: 43 arrests reported for 2025.
- Locust Grove, 1,399 residents: 55 arrests reported for 2025.
- Salina, 1,106 residents: 25 arrests reported for 2025.
- Adair, 743 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2025.
- Langley, 637 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- Spavinaw, 357 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Disney, 227 residents: 2 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 Mayes County: the Grand River Dam Authority Lake Patrol (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Mayes 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.
- Pryor Creek: 275 for 2025, 362 for 2024, 405 for 2023, 271 for 2022, 293 for 2021 and 559 for 2020.
- Mayes County Sheriff's Office: 156 for 2025, 178 for 2024, 208 for 2023, 145 for 2022, 157 for 2021 and 164 for 2020.
- Locust Grove: 55 for 2025, 75 for 2024, 59 for 2023, 91 for 2022, 58 for 2021 and 72 for 2020.
- Chouteau: 43 for 2025, 78 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 41 for 2022, 48 for 2021 and 25 for 2020.
- Salina: 25 for 2025, 41 for 2024, 18 for 2023, 62 for 2022, 61 for 2021 and 38 for 2020.
- Langley: 17 for 2025, 36 for 2024, 17 for 2023, 24 for 2022, 19 for 2021 and 22 for 2020.
- Adair: 8 for 2025, 3 for 2024, 9 for 2023, 6 for 2022, 14 for 2021 and 14 for 2020.
- Disney: 2 for 2025, 11 for 2024, 6 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 5 for 2021 and 20 for 2020.
- Spavinaw: 0 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 6 for 2022 and 0 for 2021.
Together, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 581 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 581 in 2025 against 786 in 2024, down 26 percent.
Through June 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 279 arrests, against 276 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mayes County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Mayes 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 93 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 150 beds, and it ran at 77 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Mayes County
Whether someone was arrested in Mayes County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Mayes County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mayes.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 918.825.2185); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mayes.okcounties.org/offices/district-attorney, phone 918.825.2171).
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 Mayes 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 Mayes County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Pryor Creek, Chouteau, Locust Grove, Salina, Adair, Langley or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Grand River Dam Authority Lake Patrol: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 918.825.2171, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Mayes County District Court, through the court records page at mayes.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 918.825.2185.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Mayes County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the 12 cities in Mayes County: Pryor Creek, Chouteau, Locust Grove, Salina, Adair, Langley, Spavinaw and Disney. Sportsmen Acres, Pensacola, Grand Lake Towne and Strang 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 Mayes County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mayes County each year?
Pryor Creek reported 275 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the nine agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 581 between them.
Where are people arrested in Mayes County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Mayes County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mayes 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 Mayes County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Mayes 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 Mayes 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.