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 October 1, 2026.
Del Rio, Texas, in Val Verde County, has about 35,000 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 Val Verde 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: Del Rio public records, Val Verde County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Del Rio
The FBI lists Del Rio with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Del Rio Police Department. It reported 218 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 Val Verde County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 139 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Del Rio 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.
- Del Rio: 218 for 2025, 271 for 2024, 283 for 2023, 267 for 2022, 835 for 2020 and 1,040 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Del Rio's 218 arrests in 2025 were down 20 percent from 271 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Del Rio reported 133 arrests, against 161 in the same months of 2025.
Across Val Verde County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 357 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Del Rio Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Del Rio 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 130 people on an average day, down from about 550 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 193 beds, and it is running at 67 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 Val Verde County Sheriff's Office at valverdesheriff.com (page title: Val Verde County Jail Roster Lookup, TX, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Del Rio
For Del Rio the place to look is the case index of the Val Verde County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at valverdecounty.texas.gov/268/Civil-Cases, phone 830-774-7564).
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 Del Rio
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 Del Rio police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofdelrio.com/government/departments/police-department/records-d... (page title: Records Division | Del Rio TX), phone 830-774-8597, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Val Verde County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Val Verde County District Court, through the court records page at valverdecounty.texas.gov/268/Civil-Cases, phone 830-774-7564.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at valverdecounty.texas.gov (page title: VAL VERDE COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE RECORDS REQUEST FORM).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Val Verde County guide covers every agency in the county: Val Verde County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Del Rio each year?
Del Rio reported 218 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Del Rio booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Val Verde County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Del Rio?
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 Del Rio?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Del Rio police for its own arrests, the Val Verde County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at valverdecounty.texas.gov.
Is this the official Del Rio 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.