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 between October 1, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Bowie County, Texas, has about 92,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bowie County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and 16 campus, state or other agencies. 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 Bowie 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: Bowie County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bowie County
The Bowie County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bowie County. It reported 287 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Bowie County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Texarkana, 35,971 residents: 2,016 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wake Village, 5,813 residents: 104 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Boston, 4,546 residents: 247 arrests reported for 2025.
- Nash, 4,208 residents: 62 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hooks, 2,474 residents: 24 arrests reported for 2025.
- De Kalb, 1,426 residents: 56 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.
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 Each Agency Reports in Bowie County
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.
- Texarkana: 2,016 for 2025, 2,080 for 2021 and 5,360 for 2019; 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Bowie County Sheriff's Office: 287 for 2025, 232 for 2022, 267 for 2021 and 2,745 for 2019; 2020, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- New Boston: 247 for 2025, 161 for 2024, 94 for 2023, 142 for 2021, 168 for 2020 and 374 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Wake Village: 104 for 2025, 90 for 2024, 100 for 2023, 80 for 2022 and 184 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Nash: 62 for 2025, 93 for 2024, 94 for 2023, 41 for 2022, 45 for 2021 and 63 for 2020.
- De Kalb: 56 for 2025, 5 for 2024 and 64 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Hooks: 24 for 2025, 35 for 2024, 33 for 2023, 25 for 2022, 44 for 2021 and 48 for 2020.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,796 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 493 in 2025 against 384 in 2024, up 28 percent.
Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,872 arrests, against 1,427 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bowie County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bowie 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 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 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 Bowie County
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 Bowie 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 Bowie County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Texarkana, Wake Village, New Boston, Nash, Hooks or De Kalb: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Bowie County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Texarkana College or the Texarkana Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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 other Bowie County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI and property records.
Cities in Bowie County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the ten cities in Bowie County: Texarkana, Wake Village, New Boston, Nash, Hooks and De Kalb. Maud, Red Lick, Redwater and Leary have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Bowie County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bowie County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Texarkana (35,971)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bowie County each year?
Texarkana reported 2,016 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,796 between them.
Where are people arrested in Bowie County 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 Bowie 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 Bowie County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bowie 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at texarkanatexas.gov/253/Public-Records.
Is this the official Bowie 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.