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.
Frio County, Texas, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Frio 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 Frio 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: Frio County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Frio County
The Frio County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Frio County. It reported 71 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists two cities in Frio County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Pearsall, 9,541 residents: 237 arrests reported for 2025.
- Dilley, 3,953 residents: 37 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 Frio 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.
- Pearsall: 237 for 2025, 205 for 2024, 73 for 2023, 75 for 2022, 62 for 2021 and 56 for 2020.
- Dilley: 37 for 2025, 29 for 2024, 46 for 2023, 53 for 2022, 60 for 2020 and 128 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Frio County Sheriff's Office: 71 for 2024, 69 for 2023, 539 for 2020 and 954 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 274 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 274 in 2025 against 234 in 2024, up 17 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 93 arrests, against 151 in the same months of 2025.
Frio County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Frio County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Frio 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 63 people on an average day, up from about 2 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 96 beds, and it is running at 66 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 Frio County Sheriff's Office at co.frio.tx.us/page/co.sheriff (page title: Sheriff's Office | Frio County, TX), phone 830-505-7153, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Frio County
Whether someone was arrested in Frio County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Frio County District Court, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.frio.tx.us/page/dist.attorney, phone 830-393-2200).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.frio.tx.us/page/Frio%20County%20Court%20Dockets (page title: County Court Dockets | Frio County, TX), phone (830) 505-2988, belongs to a lower court, not to the Frio County District Court.
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 Frio 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 Frio County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 830-505-7153.
- An arrest in Pearsall or Dilley: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 830-393-2200, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Frio County District Court it is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.frio.tx.us, phone (830) 505-2988, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Frio County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Frio County: Pearsall and Dilley.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Frio County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Frio County each year?
Pearsall reported 237 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 274 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Frio County?
Ask the Frio County Sheriff's Office at 830-505-7153; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.frio.tx.us/page/co.sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Frio County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Frio County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Frio 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 Frio County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Frio 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 Frio 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.