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.
Delta County, Texas, has about 5,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Delta County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Delta 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: Delta County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Delta County
The Delta County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Delta County. It reported 96 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Delta County: the Delta County Constable's Precinct 5, the Delta County Fire Marshal's Office and the Cooper Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests The Delta County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Delta County Sheriff's Office: 96 for 2025, 65 for 2024, 71 for 2023, 60 for 2022, 87 for 2021 and 104 for 2020.
The Delta County Sheriff's Office's 96 arrests in 2025 were up 48 percent from 65 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Delta County Sheriff's Office reported 76 arrests, against 64 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Delta County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Delta 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.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 15 people, down from about 16 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 20 beds, and it ran at 74 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Delta County Sheriff's Office at deltacountytx.com/sheriffs-office/page/jail (page title: Jail | Delta County, TX), 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 Delta 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 Delta 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 Delta County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by the Delta County Constable's Precinct 5, the Delta County Fire Marshal's Office or the Cooper Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Delta County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Delta County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Delta County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Delta County each year?
The Delta County Sheriff's Office reported 96 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Delta County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Delta County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Delta 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 Delta County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Delta 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 Delta 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.