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.
Guadalupe County, Texas, has about 195,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office and five 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 Guadalupe 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: Guadalupe County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Guadalupe County
The Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Guadalupe County. It reported 2,496 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside five 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:
- Schertz, 44,428 residents: 265 arrests reported for 2025.
- Seguin, 38,789 residents: 853 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cibolo, 37,816 residents: 174 arrests reported for 2025.
- Marion, 1,098 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Santa Clara, 753 residents.
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 New Braunfels Police Department, the Luling Police Department and the Selma Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Guadalupe County, so their arrests are not broken out for Guadalupe County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Guadalupe 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.
- Seguin: 853 for 2025, 743 for 2023, 670 for 2022, 600 for 2021, 724 for 2020 and 863 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Schertz: 265 for 2025, 369 for 2024, 274 for 2023, 278 for 2022, 268 for 2021 and 510 for 2020.
- Cibolo: 174 for 2025, 146 for 2024, 119 for 2023, 119 for 2022, 136 for 2021 and 116 for 2020.
- Marion: 1 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 2 for 2021.
- Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office: 2,496 for 2020 and 2,975 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,293 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 440 in 2025 against 520 in 2024, down 15 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 370 arrests, against 289 in the same months of 2025.
Santa Clara reported only part of 2025 (3 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Guadalupe County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Guadalupe 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 470 people on an average day, up from about 390 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 598 beds, and it is running at 79 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 Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office at guadalupetx.gov/page/cosheriff.adult%20detention (page title: Guadalupe County, Texas), phone (830) 303-4188, 2615 N Guadalupe St Seguin, TX 78155, Monday - Friday 6am to 10pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Guadalupe County
For Guadalupe County the place to look is the case index of the Guadalupe County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at guadalupetx.gov/page/Courts, phone 830-303-8861).
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 Guadalupe County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (830) 303-4188.
- An arrest in Schertz, Seguin, Cibolo, Marion or Santa Clara: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Guadalupe County District Court, through the court records page at guadalupetx.gov/page/Courts, phone 830-303-8861.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Guadalupe County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the eight cities in Guadalupe County: Schertz, Seguin, Cibolo, Marion and Santa Clara. New Berlin, Staples and Kingsbury have 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 Guadalupe County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County each year?
Seguin reported 853 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,293 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Guadalupe County?
Ask the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office at (830) 303-4188; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at guadalupetx.gov.
Where are people arrested in Guadalupe County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe 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.