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 23, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Alpine, Texas, in Brewster County, has about 6,000 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Brewster County District 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: Alpine public records, Brewster County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Alpine
The FBI lists Alpine with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Alpine Police Department. It reported 141 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 Brewster County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 35 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Brewster County: Sul Ross State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Alpine 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.
- Alpine: 141 for 2025, 121 for 2024, 58 for 2023, 64 for 2022 and 175 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Alpine's 141 arrests in 2025 were up 17 percent from 121 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Alpine reported 66 arrests, against 84 in the same months of 2025.
Across Brewster County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 176 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Alpine Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Alpine 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 23 people on an average day, down from about 48 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 56 beds, and it is running at 41 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Brewster County Sheriff's Office at brewstercounty.gov/page/sheriff (page title: Brewster County, Texas), phone 432-837-6200, 201 West Avenue E | Alpine, TX 79830, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice lists its inmates at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Alpine
Whether someone was arrested in Alpine, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Brewster County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at brewstercounty.gov/page/co.clerk.home, phone 432-837-6200); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at brewstercounty.gov/page/district.attorney, phone 432-837-6200).
Texas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3 a search, through the Texas Department of Public Safety. 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 Alpine
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Texas Public Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, and it may charge the copy rates set by the Attorney General, plus labor for large requests.
- An arrest by the Alpine police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofalpine.com/departments/alpine_police_department/index.php (page title: APD), phone (432) 837-3486, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Brewster County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 432-837-6200.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 432-837-6200, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Brewster County District Court, through the court records page at brewstercounty.gov/page/co.clerk.home, phone 432-837-6200.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Brewster County guide covers every agency in the county: Brewster County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Alpine each year?
Alpine reported 141 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Alpine?
Ask the Brewster County Sheriff's Office at 432-837-6200; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at brewstercounty.gov/page/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Alpine booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Brewster County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Alpine?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Texas Public Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Alpine?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Alpine police for its own arrests, the Brewster County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days.
Is this the official Alpine 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.