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.
Kingsville, Texas, in Kleberg County, has about 25,000 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 Kleberg 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: Kingsville public records, Kleberg County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Kingsville
The FBI lists Kingsville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Kingsville Police Department. It reported 394 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 Kleberg County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 147 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Kleberg County: Texas A&M University at Kingsville (campus police).
How Many Arrests Kingsville 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.
- Kingsville: 394 for 2025, 497 for 2024, 529 for 2023, 542 for 2022, 716 for 2021 and 1,338 for 2020.
Kingsville's 394 arrests in 2025 were down 21 percent from 497 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Kingsville reported 205 arrests, against 181 in the same months of 2025.
Across Kleberg County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 541 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kingsville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Kingsville 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 100 people on an average day, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 160 beds, and it is running at 66 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Kingsville
Whether someone was arrested in Kingsville, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Kleberg County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.kleberg.tx.us/page/kleberg.County.Clerk, phone 361-595-8548); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.kleberg.tx.us/page/kleberg.district.attorney, phone 361-595-8544).
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 Kingsville
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 Kingsville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofkingsville.com/departments/legal-department/open-record-request (page title: Open Record Request | The City Of Kingsville), phone 361-595-8040, 400 W. King Ave. | Kingsville, TX 78363, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Kleberg County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 361-595-8544, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kleberg County District Court, through the court records page at co.kleberg.tx.us/page/kleberg.County.Clerk, phone 361-595-8548.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Kleberg County guide covers every agency in the county: Kleberg County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kingsville each year?
Kingsville reported 394 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Kingsville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kleberg County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kingsville?
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 Kingsville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kingsville police for its own arrests, the Kleberg 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 Kingsville 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.