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.
McCurtain County, Oklahoma, has about 31,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office and seven 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 McCurtain 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: McCurtain County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in McCurtain County
The McCurtain County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for McCurtain County. It reported 195 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in McCurtain County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Idabel, 6,983 residents: 314 arrests reported for 2024.
- Broken Bow, 4,227 residents: 144 arrests reported for 2025.
- Valliant, 805 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wright City, 602 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Haworth, 284 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hochatown, 268 residents.
- Millerton, 213 residents.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in McCurtain 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.
- McCurtain County Sheriff's Office: 195 for 2025, 78 for 2024, 76 for 2023, 84 for 2022, 180 for 2021 and 185 for 2020.
- Broken Bow: 144 for 2025, 119 for 2024, 146 for 2023, 131 for 2022, 116 for 2021 and 117 for 2020.
- Valliant: 15 for 2025, 27 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 17 for 2021 and 12 for 2020.
- Haworth: 2 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 4 for 2023 and 0 for 2022.
- Wright City: 1 for 2025, 3 for 2024 and 1 for 2023.
- Idabel: 314 for 2024, 317 for 2023, 341 for 2022, 376 for 2021, 677 for 2020 and 618 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 357 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 357 in 2025 against 232 in 2024, up 54 percent.
Through April 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 105 arrests, against 90 in the same months of 2025.
Hochatown and Idabel reported only part of 2025 (3 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in McCurtain County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in McCurtain 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 99 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 180 beds, and it ran at 94 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 McCurtain County Sheriff's Office at mccurtain.okcounties.org/offices/county-sheriff (page title: County Sheriff), phone 580.286.3331, 2001 Industrial Parkway, Idabel, OK 74745, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 McCurtain County
An arrest in McCurtain County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the McCurtain County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mccurtain.okcounties.org/departments/court-clerk/record-searches, phone 580.286.3693); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mccurtain.okcounties.org/offices/district-attorney, phone 580.286.7611).
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 McCurtain 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 McCurtain County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 580.286.3331.
- An arrest in Idabel, Broken Bow, Valliant, Wright City, Haworth, Hochatown or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 580.286.7611, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the McCurtain County District Court, through the court records page at mccurtain.okcounties.org, phone 580.286.3693.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in McCurtain County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the eight cities in McCurtain County: Idabel, Broken Bow, Valliant, Wright City, Haworth, Hochatown and Millerton. Garvin has 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 McCurtain County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in McCurtain County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Idabel (6,983)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in McCurtain County each year?
The McCurtain County Sheriff's Office reported 195 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 357 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in McCurtain County?
Ask the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office at 580.286.3331; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at mccurtain.okcounties.org.
Where are people arrested in McCurtain County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in McCurtain 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 McCurtain County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the McCurtain 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 McCurtain 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.