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 October 2, 2026.
Tega Cay, South Carolina, in York 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 York 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: Tega Cay public records, York County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Tega Cay
The FBI lists Tega Cay with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Tega Cay Police Department. It reported 177 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 York County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,213 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in York County: Winthrop University and York Technical College (campus police); the York County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in York County, York County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the York County Forestry Commission and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in York County (state police).
How Many Arrests Tega Cay Reports
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.
- Tega Cay: 177 for 2025, 189 for 2024, 213 for 2023, 247 for 2022, 427 for 2021 and 286 for 2020.
Tega Cay's 177 arrests in 2025 were down 6.3 percent from 189 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Tega Cay reported 90 arrests, against 115 in the same months of 2025.
Across York County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,997 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tega Cay Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tega Cay 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 480 people, down from about 520 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 377 beds, and it ran at 127 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 York County Sheriff's Office at inmatesinjail.yorkcountygov.com/detentioncenter/inmatesinjail.aspx (page title: York County Detention Center Inmates), 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 Tega Cay
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 Tega Cay
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 Tega Cay police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at tegacaysc.org/951/Records (page title: Records | Tega Cay, SC), phone (803) 737-9000, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the York County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The York County guide covers every agency in the county: York County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tega Cay each year?
Tega Cay reported 177 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Tega Cay?
Ask the York County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at inmatesinjail.yorkcountygov.com.
Where are people arrested in Tega Cay booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the York County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tega Cay?
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 Tega Cay?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tega Cay police for its own arrests, the York 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.
Is this the official Tega Cay 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.