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 28, 2026.
Willis, Texas, in Montgomery County, has about 7,200 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 Montgomery 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: Willis public records, Montgomery County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Willis
The FBI lists Willis with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Willis Police Department. It reported 174 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 6,941 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Montgomery County: the Montgomery County Constable's Precincts 2, 1, 3, 4 and 5, the Conroe Independent School District, the Splendora Independent School District and the Montgomery County Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Willis 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.
- Willis: 174 for 2025, 148 for 2024, 123 for 2023, 111 for 2022, 172 for 2021 and 280 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Willis's 174 arrests in 2025 were up 18 percent from 148 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Willis reported 142 arrests, against 119 in the same months of 2025.
Across Montgomery County, the 11 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 11,055 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Willis Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Willis 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 1,110 people on an average day, up from about 890 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,317 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 custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com/Home/CurrentInmates (page title: Current Inmates | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Willis
Whether someone was arrested in Willis, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Montgomery County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mctx.org/departments/departments_d_-_f/district_clerk/case_inquiry.php, phone 936-539-7855); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mctxdao.org, phone (936)539-7800).
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 Willis
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 Willis police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ci.willis.tx.us/346/Records (page title: Records | Willis, TX), phone (936) 856-4039, 200 N Bell Street, Willis, TX 77378, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (936)539-7800, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Montgomery County District Court, through the court records page at mctx.org, phone 936-539-7855.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerytexas.gov/206/Records-Requests (page title: Records Requests | Montgomery, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Montgomery County guide covers every agency in the county: Montgomery County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Willis each year?
Willis reported 174 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Willis?
Look on the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Willis booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Willis?
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 Willis?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Willis police for its own arrests, the Montgomery 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 montgomerytexas.gov/206/Records-Requests.
Is this the official Willis 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.