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.
Colorado County, Texas, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Colorado County Sheriff's Office and three city 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 Colorado 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: Colorado County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Colorado County
The Colorado County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Colorado County. It reported 110 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists three cities in Colorado County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Columbus, 3,938 residents: 106 arrests reported for 2025.
- Eagle Lake, 3,545 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2025.
- Weimar, 2,194 residents: 23 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 Colorado 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.
- Columbus: 106 for 2025, 86 for 2024, 110 for 2023, 97 for 2022, 147 for 2021 and 122 for 2020.
- Weimar: 23 for 2025, 92 for 2024, 56 for 2023, 53 for 2022, 59 for 2021 and 104 for 2020.
- Eagle Lake: 15 for 2025, 33 for 2024, 63 for 2020 and 53 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Colorado County Sheriff's Office: 110 for 2024, 127 for 2023, 201 for 2021 and 168 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 144 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 144 in 2025 against 211 in 2024, down 32 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 94 arrests, against 106 in the same months of 2025.
Colorado County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Colorado County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Colorado 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 60 people on an average day, up from about 51 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 99 beds, and it is running at 61 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 Colorado County
For Colorado County the place to look is the case index of the Colorado County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.colorado.tx.us/page/colorado.district.clerk, phone (979) 732-2536).
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 Colorado County
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 Colorado County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Columbus, Eagle Lake or Weimar: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Colorado County District Court, through the court records page at co.colorado.tx.us, phone (979) 732-2536.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.colorado.tx.us (page title: Colorado County Public Information Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Colorado County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Colorado County: Columbus, Eagle Lake and Weimar.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Colorado County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Colorado County each year?
Columbus reported 106 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 144 between them.
Where are people arrested in Colorado County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Colorado County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Colorado 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 Colorado County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Colorado 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 co.colorado.tx.us.
Is this the official Colorado 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.