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.
Comanche County, Texas, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Comanche County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Comanche 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: Comanche County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Comanche County
The Comanche County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Comanche County. It reported 243 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Comanche, 4,401 residents: 91 arrests reported for 2025.
- De Leon, 2,377 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Comanche 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.
- Comanche County Sheriff's Office: 243 for 2025, 139 for 2024, 151 for 2023, 163 for 2022, 105 for 2021 and 330 for 2020.
- Comanche: 91 for 2025, 98 for 2024, 95 for 2023, 90 for 2022, 120 for 2021 and 79 for 2020.
- De Leon: 16 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 102 for 2020 and 104 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 334 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 334 in 2025 against 237 in 2024, up 41 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 202 arrests, against 222 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Comanche County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Comanche County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 35 people on an average day, down from about 37 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 145 beds, and it is running at 24 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 Comanche County Sheriff's Office at co.comanche.tx.us/page/comanche.County%20Jail (page title: County Jail | Comanche County, TX), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), 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 Comanche 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 Comanche 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 Comanche County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Comanche or De Leon: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Comanche County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Comanche County: Comanche and De Leon. Gustine has 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 Comanche County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Comanche County each year?
The Comanche County Sheriff's Office reported 243 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 334 between them.
Where are people arrested in Comanche County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Comanche County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Comanche 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 Comanche County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Comanche 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 Comanche 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.