Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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.
Cayce, South Carolina, in Lexington County, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Solicitor files charges, a case in the Lexington County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Cayce public records, Lexington County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cayce
The FBI lists Cayce with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cayce Police Department. It reported 381 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Lexington County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,445 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lexington County: the Lexington County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Lexington County, Lexington County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Lexington County Forestry Commission and one more (state agency); Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Lexington County Medical Center and Atlantic Railways (other); Midlands Technical College (campus police); the Highway Patrol in Lexington County (state police).
How Many Arrests Cayce Reports
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.
- Cayce: 381 for 2025, 383 for 2024, 493 for 2023, 686 for 2022, 490 for 2021 and 445 for 2020.
Cayce's 381 arrests in 2025 were down 0.5 percent from 383 in 2024.
Through April 2026, Cayce reported 135 arrests, against 112 in the same months of 2025.
Across Lexington County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,429 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cayce Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cayce 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 590 people, down from about 690 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 599 beds, and it ran at 99 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 Lexington County Sheriff's Office at lexingtonscsheriff.com (page title: Lexington County Sheriff's Department), phone 803-785-8230, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cayce
For Cayce the place to look is the Solicitor, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lex-co.sc.gov/directories/building-directory/solicitor, phone (803) 785-8352).
South Carolina is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25 a search, through the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. 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 Cayce
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old, and it may charge search, retrieval and copying at the agency's actual cost.
- An arrest by the Cayce police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at caycesc.gov/foia.php (page title: Freedom of Information Act Requests | Cayce, SC | Time for Life), phone 803-550-9557, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lexington County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 803-785-8230.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Solicitor, (803) 785-8352, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lexsc.nextrequest.com (page title: Town of Lexington Records Request PortalNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Lexington County guide covers every agency in the county: Lexington County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cayce each year?
Cayce reported 381 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cayce?
Ask the Lexington County Sheriff's Office at 803-785-8230; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at lexingtonscsheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Cayce booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lexington County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cayce?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cayce?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cayce police for its own arrests, the Lexington County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lexsc.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Cayce website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.