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 2024. 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.
Gun Barrel City, Texas, in Henderson County, has about 7,000 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 Henderson 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: Gun Barrel City public records, Henderson County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Gun Barrel City
The FBI lists Gun Barrel City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Gun Barrel City Police Department. It reported 308 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Henderson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 410 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Henderson County: the Brownsboro Independent School District, the Malakoff Independent School District, the Murchison Independent School District and the Henderson County Constable's Precincts 5, 4 and 1 (other); Trinity Valley Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Gun Barrel City 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.
- Gun Barrel City: 308 for 2024, 180 for 2023, 63 for 2021, 54 for 2020 and 107 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Gun Barrel City's 308 arrests in 2024 were up 71 percent from 180 in 2023.
Across Henderson County, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 882 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gun Barrel City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gun Barrel City 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 350 people on an average day, down from about 360 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 508 beds, and it is running at 69 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office at sheriffhendersoncounty.com/inmate-lookup (page title: Inmate Lookup | Henderson County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, whose inmate locator is at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Gun Barrel City
For Gun Barrel City the place to look is the custody page of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail.
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 Gun Barrel City
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 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 Gun Barrel City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at gunbarrelcity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/147/Police-Application-for-Pu... (page title: GUN BARREL CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT APPLICATION FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION), phone 903-887-7151, 298 Municipal Dr Gun Barrel City, TX 75156, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Henderson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hendersontx.us/1397/Open-Records (page title: Open Records | Henderson, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Henderson County guide covers every agency in the county: Henderson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gun Barrel City each year?
Gun Barrel City reported 308 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gun Barrel City?
Look on the custody page of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office at sheriffhendersoncounty.com/inmate-lookup. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Gun Barrel City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Henderson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gun Barrel City?
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 Gun Barrel City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gun Barrel City police for its own arrests, the Henderson 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 hendersontx.us/1397/Open-Records.
Is this the official Gun Barrel City 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.