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.
Brazos County, Texas, has about 250,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Brazos County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and seven 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 Brazos 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: Brazos County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Brazos County
The Brazos County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Brazos County. It reported 484 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Brazos County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- College Station, 128,023 residents: 2,160 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bryan, 91,541 residents: 2,460 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 Brazos County: the Brazos County Constable's Precincts 2, 1, 3 and 4, the Bryan Fire Marshal's Office and the Fire Marshal's Office's College Station (other); Texas A&M University's College Station (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Brazos 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.
- Bryan: 2,460 for 2025, 2,628 for 2024, 2,816 for 2023, 2,520 for 2022, 2,304 for 2021 and 3,023 for 2020.
- College Station: 2,160 for 2025, 2,273 for 2024, 2,293 for 2023, 1,914 for 2022, 1,876 for 2021 and 1,747 for 2020.
- Brazos County Sheriff's Office: 484 for 2025, 721 for 2024, 857 for 2023, 799 for 2022, 754 for 2021 and 1,241 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,104 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,104 in 2025 against 5,622 in 2024, down 9.2 percent.
Through May 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,430 arrests, against 2,181 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brazos County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brazos 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 750 people on an average day, up from about 640 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,089 beds, and it is running at 69 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 Brazos County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.brazoscountytx.gov/justice-web (page title: Justice Web | Brazos County Sheriff's Office), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), 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 Brazos 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 Brazos 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 Brazos County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in College Station or Bryan: 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 Brazos County Constable's Precincts 2, 1, 3 and 4, Texas A&M University's College Station or the Bryan Fire Marshal's Office: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Brazos County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Brazos County: College Station and Bryan. Kurten and Wixon Valley 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 Brazos County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Brazos County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- College Station (128,023)
- Bryan (91,541)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brazos County each year?
Bryan reported 2,460 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,104 between them.
Where are people arrested in Brazos County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Brazos County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brazos 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 Brazos County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brazos 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 Brazos 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.