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 25, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Texarkana, Texas, in Bowie County, has about 36,000 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 Bowie 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: Texarkana public records, Bowie County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Texarkana
The FBI lists Texarkana with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Texarkana Police Department. It reported 2,016 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 Bowie County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 287 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bowie County: the Bowie County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, the Texarkana Independent School District, the Liberty-Eylau Independent School District, the Texarkana Fire Marshal's Office and six more (other); Texarkana College and Texas A&M University at Texarkana (campus police).
How Many Arrests Texarkana 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.
- Texarkana: 2,016 for 2025, 2,080 for 2021 and 5,360 for 2019; 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Through August 2026, Texarkana reported 1,805 arrests, against 1,289 in the same months of 2025.
Across Bowie County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,796 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Texarkana Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Texarkana 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 520 people on an average day, down from about 1,600 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 921 beds, and it is running at 56 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 Bowie County Sheriff's Office at co.bowie.tx.us/page/bowie.Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Bowie County, Texas), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
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 Texarkana
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 Texarkana
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 Texarkana police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at texarkanatexas.gov/253/Public-Records (page title: Public record requests | Texarkana, TX), phone 903-798-3930, 220 Texas Blvd. Texarkana, TX 75501, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Bowie County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at texarkanatexas.gov/253/Public-Records (page title: Public record requests | Texarkana, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Bowie County guide covers every agency in the county: Bowie County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Texarkana each year?
Texarkana reported 2,016 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Texarkana booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bowie County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Texarkana?
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 Texarkana?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Texarkana police for its own arrests, the Bowie 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 texarkanatexas.gov/253/Public-Records.
Is this the official Texarkana 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.