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.
San Juan, Texas, in Hidalgo County, has about 37,000 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 Hidalgo 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: San Juan public records, Hidalgo County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in San Juan
The FBI lists San Juan with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as San Juan Police Department. It reported 494 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 Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 7,026 arrests for 2023.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hidalgo County: the South Texas Independent School District, the Hidalgo County Constable's Precincts 4, 1 and 5, the Edinburg Independent School District, the McAllen Independent School District and two more (other); South Texas College and the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley (campus police).
How Many Arrests San Juan 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.
- San Juan: 494 for 2025, 440 for 2024, 265 for 2022, 332 for 2020 and 398 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
San Juan's 494 arrests in 2025 were up 12 percent from 440 in 2024.
Through August 2026, San Juan reported 361 arrests, against 320 in the same months of 2025.
Across Hidalgo County, the 18 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 15,072 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in San Juan Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in San Juan 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 1,150 people on an average day, up from about 1,060 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,432 beds, and it is running at 80 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 Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office at hidalgocounty.us/3007/Detention (page title: Detention | Hidalgo County, TX), Monday from (8:00 am - 14:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 San Juan
Whether someone was arrested in San Juan, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Hidalgo County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at hidalgocounty.us/1477/Civil-and-Criminal-Case-Search); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hidalgocounty.us/m/directory/department?did=87, phone (956) 292-7600).
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 San Juan
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 San Juan police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at sanjuanpolice.com/records-division (page title: Records Division | San Juan Police Department), 709 S. Nebraska St, San Juan, TX 78589, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (956) 292-7600, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hidalgo County District Court, through the court records page at hidalgocounty.us.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hidalgocounty.us (page title: How to request Public Information | Hidalgo County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Hidalgo County guide covers every agency in the county: Hidalgo County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in San Juan each year?
San Juan reported 494 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in San Juan?
Ask the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at hidalgocounty.us/3007/Detention.
Where are people arrested in San Juan booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in San Juan?
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 San Juan?
From the agency that made the arrest: the San Juan police for its own arrests, the Hidalgo 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 hidalgocounty.us.
Is this the official San Juan 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.