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 25, 2026.
Little Elm, Texas, in Denton County, has about 61,000 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 Denton 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: Little Elm public records, Denton County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Little Elm
The FBI lists Little Elm with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Little Elm Police Department. It reported 627 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 Denton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 340 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Denton County: the Denton County Constable's Precincts 4, 3, 6, 5 and 1, the Aubrey Independent School District, the Argyle Independent School District, Elm Ridge and four more (other); the University of North Texas at Denton and Texas Woman's University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Little Elm 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.
- Little Elm: 627 for 2025, 693 for 2024, 759 for 2023, 622 for 2022 and 851 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Little Elm's 627 arrests in 2025 were down 9.5 percent from 693 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Little Elm reported 424 arrests, against 440 in the same months of 2025.
Across Denton County, the 25 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 12,466 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Little Elm Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Little Elm 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 1,220 people on an average day, up from about 1,180 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,788 beds, and it is running at 68 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Little Elm
Whether someone was arrested in Little Elm, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Denton County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dentoncounty.gov/920/Judicial-Law-Enforcement-Records-Search); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at dentoncounty.gov/223/District-Attorney, phone 940-349-2600).
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 Little Elm
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 Little Elm police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at littleelm.gov/1507/Open-Records-Request (page title: Resources & Forms | Town of Little Elm, TX), phone 214-975-0460, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Denton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 940-349-2600, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Denton County District Court, through the court records page at dentoncounty.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dentoncounty.gov/1145/Records-Request (page title: Records Request | Denton County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Denton County guide covers every agency in the county: Denton County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Little Elm each year?
Little Elm reported 627 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Little Elm booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Denton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Little Elm?
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 Little Elm?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Little Elm police for its own arrests, the Denton 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 dentoncounty.gov/1145/Records-Request.
Is this the official Little Elm 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.