Waxahachie Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Waxahachie

The FBI lists Waxahachie with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Waxahachie Police Department. It reported 816 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 Ellis County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 554 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Ellis County: the Ennis Independent School District, the Red Oak Independent School District, the Ferris Independent School District and the Ellis County Constable's Precincts 3, 1, 4 and 2 (other).

How Many Arrests Waxahachie 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.

• Waxahachie: 816 for 2025, 1,022 for 2024, 844 for 2023, 811 for 2022, 656 for 2021 and 509 for 2020.

Waxahachie's 816 arrests in 2025 were down 20 percent from 1,022 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Waxahachie reported 461 arrests, against 578 in the same months of 2025.

Across Ellis County, the 13 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,541 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Waxahachie Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Waxahachie 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 570 people on an average day, up from about 420 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 859 beds, and it is running at 67 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 Ellis County Sheriff's Office at elliscountysheriff.com/ecso-content (page title: Ellis County Sheriff's Office), phone (972) 825-4901, 300 S. Jackson St., Waxahachie, TX 75165, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Waxahachie

For Waxahachie the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at elliscountytx.gov/73/County-and-District-Attorney, phone 972-825-5035).

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 Waxahachie

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 Waxahachie police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at waxahachietx.gov/407/Records-Service (page title: Records Service | Waxahachie, TX), phone 469-309-4400, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Ellis County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (972) 825-4901.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 972-825-5035, handles discovery for pending cases.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at elliscountytx.gov (page title: Open Records/Public Information Requests | Ellis County, TX Official Website).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.

The Ellis County guide covers every agency in the county: Ellis County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Waxahachie each year?

Waxahachie reported 816 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Waxahachie?

Ask the Ellis County Sheriff's Office at (972) 825-4901; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at elliscountysheriff.com/ecso-content.

Where are people arrested in Waxahachie booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Ellis County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Waxahachie?

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 Waxahachie?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Waxahachie police for its own arrests, the Ellis 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 elliscountytx.gov.

Is this the official Waxahachie 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.