SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Denton County, Texas, has about 1.0 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Denton County Sheriff's Office, 26 city agencies and 14 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 Denton 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: Denton County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Denton County

The Denton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Denton County. It reported 340 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 25 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, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Denton, 165,998 residents: 3,554 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lewisville, 135,983 residents: 2,413 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Carrollton, 135,456 residents: 2,418 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Flower Mound, 79,990 residents: 970 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Little Elm, 61,219 residents: 627 arrests reported for 2025.
  • The Colony, 45,897 residents: 687 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Corinth, 24,450 residents: 209 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Highland Village, 16,137 residents: 121 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Trophy Club, 13,704 residents: 92 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Roanoke, 10,895 residents: 175 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Northlake, 10,746 residents: 171 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Sanger, 10,142 residents: 92 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 Celina Police Department, the Prosper Police Department, the Plano Police Department and five more are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Denton County, so their arrests are not broken out for Denton County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Denton County: the Denton County Constable's Precincts 4, 3, 6, 5 and 1, the Aubrey Independent School District, the Argyle Independent School District, Elm Ridge and four more (other); the University of North Texas at Denton and Texas Woman's University (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Denton 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.

  • Denton: 3,554 for 2025, 4,154 for 2024, 4,177 for 2023, 3,082 for 2022, 2,886 for 2021 and 1,969 for 2020.
  • Carrollton: 2,418 for 2025, 2,519 for 2024, 3,069 for 2023, 2,779 for 2022 and 2,665 for 2021.
  • Lewisville: 2,413 for 2025, 3,333 for 2024, 3,600 for 2023, 3,190 for 2022, 3,194 for 2021 and 3,371 for 2020.
  • Flower Mound: 970 for 2025, 809 for 2024, 824 for 2023, 785 for 2022 and 686 for 2021.
  • The Colony: 687 for 2025, 668 for 2024, 724 for 2023, 860 for 2022, 1,166 for 2021 and 400 for 2020.
  • Little Elm: 627 for 2025, 693 for 2024, 759 for 2023, 622 for 2022 and 851 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
  • Denton County Sheriff's Office: 340 for 2025, 374 for 2024, 439 for 2021, 379 for 2020 and 579 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
  • Corinth: 209 for 2025, 151 for 2024, 218 for 2023, 272 for 2022, 316 for 2021 and 288 for 2020.
  • Roanoke: 175 for 2025, 303 for 2024, 550 for 2023, 446 for 2022, 356 for 2021 and 338 for 2020.
  • Aubrey: 172 for 2025, 233 for 2024, 248 for 2023, 152 for 2022, 71 for 2021 and 72 for 2020.
  • Northlake: 171 for 2025, 142 for 2024, 136 for 2023, 191 for 2022, 155 for 2021 and 112 for 2020.
  • Highland Village: 121 for 2025, 247 for 2024, 162 for 2023, 132 for 2022, 147 for 2021 and 110 for 2020.

Together, the 25 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 12,466 arrests that year. The 24 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 12,466 in 2025 against 14,282 in 2024, down 13 percent.

Through August 2026, the 20 agencies with every month so far on file reported 5,542 arrests, against 5,733 in the same months of 2025.

Argyle reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Denton County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Denton 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 1,220 people on an average day, up from about 1,180 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,788 beds, and it is running at 68 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

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 Denton County

Whether someone was arrested in Denton County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Denton County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dentoncounty.gov/920/Judicial-Law-Enforcement-Records-Search); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at dentoncounty.gov/223/District-Attorney, phone 940-349-2600).

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 Denton 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 Denton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Denton, Lewisville, Carrollton, Flower Mound, Little Elm, The Colony or another of the cities listed above: 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 Denton County Constable's Precincts 4, 3, 6, 5 and 1, the Aubrey Independent School District or the Argyle Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 940-349-2600, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Denton County District Court, through the court records page at dentoncounty.gov.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dentoncounty.gov/1145/Records-Request (page title: Records Request | Denton County, TX).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Denton County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 25 of the 33 cities in Denton County: the twelve named above and Aubrey, Lake Dallas, Hickory Creek, Oak Point, Krum, Pilot Point, Argyle, Justin, Double Oak, Ponder, Copper Canyon, Cross Roads and Bartonville. Providence Village, Shady Shores, Hackberry, Krugerville, Lakewood Village, DISH, Hebron and Corral City have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Northeast Police Department as a city agency in Denton County; Northeast is not among the cities above.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Denton County District Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Denton County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Denton County each year?

Denton reported 3,554 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 25 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 12,466 between them.

Where are people arrested in Denton County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Denton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Denton 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 Denton County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Denton 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 dentoncounty.gov/1145/Records-Request.

Is this the official Denton 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.