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.
Navasota, Texas, in Grimes County, has about 9,500 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 Grimes 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: Navasota public records, Grimes County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Navasota
The FBI lists Navasota with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Navasota Police Department. It reported 272 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 Grimes County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 100 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Grimes County: the Grimes County Constable's Precincts 1 and 2 and Grimes County Constable at Precinct 3 & 4 (other).
How Many Arrests Navasota 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.
- Navasota: 272 for 2025, 286 for 2024, 314 for 2023, 220 for 2022, 162 for 2021 and 172 for 2020.
Navasota's 272 arrests in 2025 were down 4.9 percent from 286 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Navasota reported 137 arrests, against 187 in the same months of 2025.
Across Grimes County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 375 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Navasota Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Navasota 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 81 people on an average day, up from about 53 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 111 beds, and it is running at 73 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 Navasota
Whether someone was arrested in Navasota, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Grimes County District Court, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at grimescountytexas.gov/district-attorney, phone 936-873-2137).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at grimescountytexas.gov/index.asp (page title: County Court Records Online | County Clerk | Grimes County, TX), belongs to a lower court, not to the Grimes County District Court.
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 Navasota
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 Navasota police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at navasotatx.gov/departments/police_department/records___forms/offens... (page title: Navasota, TX), phone (936) 825-6124, 200 E. McAlpine Street P.O. Box 910 Navasota, TX 77868, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Grimes County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 936-873-2137, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Grimes County District Court it is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at grimescountytexas.gov/index.asp, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at grimescountytexas.gov/ (page title: Open Records Requests | County Clerk | Grimes County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Grimes County guide covers every agency in the county: Grimes County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Navasota each year?
Navasota reported 272 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Navasota booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Grimes County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Navasota?
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 Navasota?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Navasota police for its own arrests, the Grimes 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 grimescountytexas.gov/.
Is this the official Navasota 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.