Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Andrews County, Texas, has about 19,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Andrews County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest 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 Andrews County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Andrews County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Andrews County
The Andrews County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Andrews County. It reported 13 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Andrews County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Andrews, 13,677 residents: 203 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Andrews County
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.
- Andrews: 203 for 2025, 234 for 2024, 274 for 2023, 390 for 2022, 342 for 2021 and 396 for 2020.
- Andrews County Sheriff's Office: 13 for 2025, 15 for 2024, 12 for 2023, 24 for 2022 and 65 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 216 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 216 in 2025 against 249 in 2024, down 13 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 124 arrests, against 144 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Andrews County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Andrews County 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 66 people on an average day, up from about 33 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 147 beds, and it is running at 45 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 Andrews County
For Andrews County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.andrews.tx.us/179/County-District-Attorney, phone 432-524-1405).
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 Andrews County
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 Andrews County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Andrews: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 432-524-1405, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Andrews County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Andrews, the one city in Andrews County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Andrews County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Andrews County each year?
Andrews reported 203 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 216 between them.
Where are people arrested in Andrews County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Andrews County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Andrews County?
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 Andrews County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Andrews County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days.
Is this the official Andrews County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.