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.
McClain County, Oklahoma, has about 48,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the McClain County Sheriff's Office and five 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 McClain 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: McClain County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in McClain County
The McClain County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for McClain County. It reported 60 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in McClain County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Newcastle, 14,677 residents: 55 arrests reported for 2025.
- Blanchard, 9,869 residents: 69 arrests reported for 2025.
- Purcell, 6,938 residents: 104 arrests reported for 2025.
- Dibble, 985 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2025.
- Washington, 767 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 Maysville Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including McClain County, so its arrests are not broken out for McClain County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in McClain 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.
- Purcell: 104 for 2025, 119 for 2024, 99 for 2023, 88 for 2022, 110 for 2021 and 153 for 2020.
- Blanchard: 69 for 2025, 43 for 2024, 39 for 2023, 34 for 2022, 41 for 2021 and 39 for 2020.
- McClain County Sheriff's Office: 60 for 2025, 63 for 2024, 64 for 2023, 51 for 2022, 56 for 2021 and 58 for 2020.
- Newcastle: 55 for 2025, 62 for 2024, 77 for 2023, 79 for 2022, 48 for 2021 and 60 for 2020.
- Dibble: 16 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 8 for 2023, 28 for 2022, 22 for 2021 and 10 for 2020.
- Washington: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 1 for 2021 and 1 for 2020.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 304 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 304 in 2025 against 291 in 2024, up 4.5 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 192 arrests, against 175 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in McClain County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in McClain 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 65 people, down from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2020, the last year with a capacity figure, was 56 beds, and it ran at 147 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 McClain County Sheriff's Office at mcclaincountysheriff.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | McClain 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 McClain County
An arrest in McClain County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the McClain County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; 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 McClain 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 McClain County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Newcastle, Blanchard, Purcell, Dibble or Washington: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in McClain County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the ten cities in McClain County: Newcastle, Blanchard, Purcell, Dibble and Washington. Goldsby, Wayne, Cole, Byars and Rosedale 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 McClain County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in McClain County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in McClain County each year?
Purcell reported 104 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 304 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in McClain County?
Look on the custody page of the McClain County Sheriff's Office at mcclaincountysheriff.com/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in McClain County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the McClain County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in McClain 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 McClain County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the McClain 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 McClain 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.