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 September 30, 2026.
Wagoner County, Oklahoma, has about 91,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Wagoner 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: Wagoner County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Wagoner County
The Wagoner County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Wagoner County. It reported 157 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Coweta, 11,093 residents: 214 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wagoner, 8,387 residents: 181 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 Broken Arrow Police Department, the Bixby Police Department, the Catoosa Police Department and one more are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Wagoner County, so their arrests are not broken out for Wagoner County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Wagoner 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.
- Coweta: 214 for 2025, 181 for 2023, 287 for 2022, 282 for 2021, 249 for 2020 and 227 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Wagoner: 181 for 2025, 194 for 2024, 223 for 2023, 302 for 2022, 218 for 2021 and 203 for 2020.
- Wagoner County Sheriff's Office: 157 for 2025, 113 for 2024, 115 for 2023, 160 for 2022, 227 for 2021 and 203 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 552 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 338 in 2025 against 307 in 2024, up 10 percent.
Through May 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 272 arrests, against 227 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wagoner County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Wagoner 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 82 people, down from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 150 beds, and it ran at 91 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 Wagoner County Sheriff's Office at wagonercountyso.org/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Wagoner County Sheriff's Office), phone 918-485-3124, 307 E. Cherokee St., Wagoner, OK 74467, 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 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 Wagoner County
Whether someone was arrested in Wagoner County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Wagoner 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; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at wagonercounty.ok.gov/271/District-27-District-Attorney, phone 918-696-7150).
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 Wagoner 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 Wagoner County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 918-485-3124.
- An arrest in Coweta or Wagoner: 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, 918-696-7150, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at wagonercounty.ok.gov (page title: Form Center, Open Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Wagoner County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the seven cities in Wagoner County: Coweta and Wagoner. Porter, Okay, Tullahassee, Redbird and Fair Oaks 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 Wagoner County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Wagoner County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Coweta (11,093)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wagoner County each year?
Coweta reported 214 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 552 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Wagoner County?
Look on the custody page of the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office at wagonercountyso.org/inmate-search, or call 918-485-3124. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Wagoner County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wagoner 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 Wagoner County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wagoner 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 wagonercounty.ok.gov.
Is this the official Wagoner 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.