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 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, has about 38,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and one campus 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 Pontotoc 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: Pontotoc County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pontotoc County
The Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pontotoc County. It reported 52 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Pontotoc County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Ada, 16,578 residents: 481 arrests reported for 2025.
- Allen, 803 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
- Stonewall, 417 residents: 8 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 Pontotoc County: East Central University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pontotoc 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.
- Ada: 481 for 2025, 612 for 2024, 511 for 2023, 624 for 2022, 505 for 2021 and 692 for 2020.
- Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office: 52 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 42 for 2023, 57 for 2022, 536 for 2020 and 857 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Stonewall: 8 for 2025.
- Allen: 4 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 20 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 11 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 545 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 537 in 2025 against 664 in 2024, down 19 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 318 arrests, against 293 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pontotoc County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pontotoc 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 150 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 208 beds, and it ran at 73 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 Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office at pontotoc.okcounties.org/departments/county-sheriff/pontotoc-county-... (page title: Pontotoc County Daily Inmate List), phone 580.332.1425, 301 South Broadway Ada, OK 74820, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 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 Pontotoc County
Whether someone was arrested in Pontotoc County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Pontotoc County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at oscn.net/dockets/Search.aspx); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pontotoc.okcounties.org/offices/district-attorney, phone 580.332.1425).
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 Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 580.332.1425.
- An arrest in Ada, Allen or Stonewall: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by East Central University: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 580.332.1425, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pontotoc County District Court, through the court records page at oscn.net/dockets/Search.aspx.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pontotoc County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the seven cities in Pontotoc County: Ada, Allen and Stonewall. Byng, Roff, Francis and Fitzhugh 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 Pontotoc County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pontotoc County each year?
Ada reported 481 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 545 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pontotoc County?
Look on the custody page of the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office at pontotoc.okcounties.org, or call 580.332.1425. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Pontotoc County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc 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.