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 between September 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026.

About this guide

Montgomery County, Texas, has about 750,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, 11 city agencies and eight 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 Montgomery 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: Montgomery County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Montgomery County

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Montgomery County. It reported 6,941 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists 11 cities in Montgomery County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:

  • Conroe, 114,581 residents: 2,896 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Willis, 7,222 residents: 174 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Magnolia, 6,506 residents: 156 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Shenandoah, 3,839 residents: 210 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Oak Ridge North, 3,003 residents: 213 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Montgomery, 2,860 residents: 174 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Roman Forest, 2,367 residents: 68 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Splendora, 2,063 residents: 222 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Patton Village, 1,980 residents: 70 arrests reported for 2023.
  • Woodbranch, 1,587 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Stagecoach, 603 residents: 1 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 Cleveland Police Department and the Houston Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Montgomery County, so their arrests are not broken out for Montgomery County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Montgomery County: the Montgomery County Constable's Precincts 2, 1, 3, 4 and 5, the Conroe Independent School District, the Splendora Independent School District and the Montgomery County Independent School District (other).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Montgomery 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.

  • Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: 6,941 for 2025, 6,187 for 2024, 6,207 for 2023, 5,830 for 2022, 5,029 for 2021 and 7,586 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Conroe: 2,896 for 2025, 2,642 for 2024, 2,842 for 2023, 2,741 for 2022, 3,407 for 2021 and 2,795 for 2020.
  • Splendora: 222 for 2025, 314 for 2023, 242 for 2022, 134 for 2021, 309 for 2020 and 260 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
  • Oak Ridge North: 213 for 2025, 327 for 2024, 395 for 2023, 330 for 2022, 335 for 2021 and 292 for 2020.
  • Shenandoah: 210 for 2025, 292 for 2024, 280 for 2023, 231 for 2022, 133 for 2021 and 110 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Willis: 174 for 2025, 148 for 2024, 123 for 2023, 111 for 2022, 172 for 2021 and 280 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Montgomery: 174 for 2025, 160 for 2024, 137 for 2023, 150 for 2022, 128 for 2021 and 119 for 2020.
  • Magnolia: 156 for 2025, 162 for 2024, 175 for 2023, 233 for 2022, 219 for 2021 and 183 for 2020.
  • Roman Forest: 68 for 2025, 48 for 2024, 26 for 2023, 25 for 2022, 15 for 2021 and 13 for 2020.
  • Stagecoach: 1 for 2025.
  • Woodbranch: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2022.
  • Patton Village: 70 for 2023 and 194 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.

Together, the 11 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 11,055 arrests that year. The nine of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 10,832 in 2025 against 9,966 in 2024, up 8.7 percent.

Through July 2026, the nine agencies with every month so far on file reported 6,919 arrests, against 6,276 in the same months of 2025.

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

Booking: Where People Arrested in Montgomery County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Montgomery 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 1,110 people on an average day, up from about 890 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,317 beds, and it is running at 85 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com/Home/CurrentInmates (page title: Current Inmates | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Montgomery County

Whether someone was arrested in Montgomery County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Montgomery County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mctx.org/departments/departments_d_-_f/district_clerk/case_inquiry.php, phone 936-539-7855); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mctxdao.org, phone (936)539-7800).

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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Conroe, Willis, Magnolia, Shenandoah, Oak Ridge North, Montgomery 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 Montgomery County Constable's Precincts 2, 1, 3, 4 and 5, the Conroe Independent School District or the Splendora 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, (936)539-7800, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Montgomery County District Court, through the court records page at mctx.org, phone 936-539-7855.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerytexas.gov/206/Records-Requests (page title: Records Requests | Montgomery, TX).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Montgomery County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 11 of the 14 cities in Montgomery County: Conroe, Willis, Magnolia, Shenandoah, Oak Ridge North, Montgomery, Roman Forest, Splendora, Patton Village, Woodbranch and Stagecoach. Panorama Village, Cut and Shoot and Woodloch 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 Montgomery County District Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County each year?

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office reported 6,941 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 11 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 11,055 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Montgomery County?

Look on the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Montgomery County booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Montgomery 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 montgomerytexas.gov/206/Records-Requests.

Is this the official Montgomery 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.