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 4, 2026.
Mont Belvieu, Texas, in Chambers County, has about 10,000 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 Chambers 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: Mont Belvieu public records, Chambers County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Mont Belvieu
The FBI lists Mont Belvieu with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Mont Belvieu Police Department. It reported 387 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 Chambers County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 918 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Chambers County: the Barbers Hill Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Mont Belvieu 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.
- Mont Belvieu: 387 for 2025, 353 for 2024, 198 for 2023, 73 for 2022, 73 for 2021 and 115 for 2020.
Mont Belvieu's 387 arrests in 2025 were up 9.6 percent from 353 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Mont Belvieu reported 312 arrests, against 280 in the same months of 2025.
Across Chambers County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,305 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mont Belvieu Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Mont Belvieu 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 190 people on an average day, up from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 226 beds, and it is running at 85 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 Chambers County Sheriff's Office at chamberscountytx.gov/175/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Chambers County, TX), phone 409-267-2500, 201 North Court Anahuac, TX 77514, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
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 Mont Belvieu
For Mont Belvieu the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at chamberscountytx.gov/435/District-Attorney, phone 409-267-2682).
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 Mont Belvieu
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 Mont Belvieu police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at montbelvieu.net/585/Extra-Patrol-Request (page title: Extra Patrol Request | Mont Belvieu, TX), phone 281-576-2213, 11607 Eagle Drive Mont Belvieu, TX 77580, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Chambers County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 409-267-2500.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 409-267-2682, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at chamberscountytx.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Chambers County guide covers every agency in the county: Chambers County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mont Belvieu each year?
Mont Belvieu reported 387 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Mont Belvieu?
Ask the Chambers County Sheriff's Office at 409-267-2500; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at chamberscountytx.gov/175/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Mont Belvieu booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Chambers County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mont Belvieu?
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 Mont Belvieu?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Mont Belvieu police for its own arrests, the Chambers 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 chamberscountytx.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Mont Belvieu 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.