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.
El Paso County, Texas, has about 876,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and four 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 El Paso 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: El Paso County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in El Paso County
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for El Paso County. It reported 2,665 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six 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:
- El Paso, 681,723 residents: 11,789 arrests reported for 2025.
- Socorro, 38,642 residents: 250 arrests reported for 2025.
- Horizon City, 24,802 residents: 195 arrests reported for 2025.
- San Elizario, 10,128 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2023.
- Anthony, 4,542 residents: 54 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clint, 1,069 residents: 15 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in El Paso County: the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College (campus police); the Socorro Independent School District and the El Paso Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in El Paso 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.
- El Paso: 11,789 for 2025, 10,735 for 2024, 10,798 for 2023, 9,955 for 2022, 9,993 for 2021 and 12,167 for 2020.
- El Paso County Sheriff's Office: 2,665 for 2025, 2,715 for 2024, 2,527 for 2023, 1,743 for 2022, 1,239 for 2021 and 1,365 for 2020.
- Socorro: 250 for 2025, 230 for 2024, 390 for 2023, 293 for 2022, 182 for 2021 and 302 for 2020.
- Horizon City: 195 for 2025, 123 for 2024, 141 for 2023, 120 for 2022, 78 for 2021 and 324 for 2020.
- Anthony: 54 for 2025, 107 for 2024, 221 for 2023, 142 for 2022, 101 for 2021 and 402 for 2020.
- Clint: 15 for 2023 and 6 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
- San Elizario: 1 for 2023, 20 for 2022, 20 for 2021, 154 for 2020 and 176 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 14,953 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 14,953 in 2025 against 13,910 in 2024, up 7.5 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 7,552 arrests, against 8,483 in the same months of 2025.
Clint reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in El Paso County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in El Paso 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 2,240 people on an average day, up from about 2,220 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 2,976 beds, and it is running at 75 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at apps.epcountytx.gov/odysseyCrsPublic/JailRecords (page title: Jail Search | Public Access), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 El Paso County
Whether someone was arrested in El Paso County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at elpasotexas.gov/city-attorney, phone (915) 212-0033).
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 El Paso 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 El Paso County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in El Paso, Socorro, Horizon City, San Elizario, Anthony or Clint: 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 University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Community College or the Socorro 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, (915) 212-0033, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in El Paso County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the seven cities in El Paso County: El Paso, Socorro, Horizon City, San Elizario, Anthony and Clint. Vinton 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 El Paso County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in El Paso County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Socorro (38,642)
- Horizon City (24,802)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in El Paso County each year?
El Paso reported 11,789 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 14,953 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in El Paso County?
Look on the custody page of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at apps.epcountytx.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in El Paso County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in El Paso 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 El Paso County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the El Paso 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 El Paso 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.