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 30, 2026.
Morris County, Texas, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Morris County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and two 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 Morris 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: Morris County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Morris County
The Morris County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Morris County. It reported 79 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Daingerfield, 2,534 residents: 101 arrests reported for 2025.
- Naples, 1,411 residents: 60 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lone Star, 1,407 residents: 25 arrests reported for 2025.
- Omaha, 939 residents: 5 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 Hughes Springs Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Morris County, so its arrests are not broken out for Morris County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Morris County: the Daingerfield-Lone Star Independent School District and the Pewitt Consolidated Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Morris 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.
- Daingerfield: 101 for 2025, 181 for 2024, 127 for 2023, 94 for 2022, 128 for 2021 and 282 for 2020.
- Morris County Sheriff's Office: 79 for 2025, 73 for 2024, 56 for 2023, 48 for 2022, 167 for 2020 and 257 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Naples: 60 for 2025, 13 for 2020 and 22 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Lone Star: 25 for 2025, 24 for 2023, 21 for 2022, 50 for 2020 and 77 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Omaha: 5 for 2025.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 270 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 180 in 2025 against 254 in 2024, down 29 percent.
Through August 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 246 arrests, against 173 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Morris County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Morris 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 32 people on an average day, up from about 26 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 48 beds, and it is running at 67 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 Morris County Sheriff's Office at co.morris.tx.us/page/morris.Sheriff (page title: Morris County, Texas), phone 903-645-2232, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Morris County
Whether someone was arrested in Morris County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Morris County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.morris.tx.us/page/morris.District.Clerk, phone 903-645-2321); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.morris.tx.us/page/morris.District.Attorney, phone 903-645-2021).
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 Morris 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 Morris County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 903-645-2232.
- An arrest in Daingerfield, Naples, Lone Star or Omaha: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Daingerfield-Lone Star Independent School District or the Pewitt Consolidated 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, 903-645-2021, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Morris County District Court, through the court records page at co.morris.tx.us/page/morris.District.Clerk, phone 903-645-2321.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Morris County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Morris County: Daingerfield, Naples, Lone Star and Omaha.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Morris County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Morris County each year?
Daingerfield reported 101 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 270 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Morris County?
Ask the Morris County Sheriff's Office at 903-645-2232; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.morris.tx.us/page/morris.Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Morris County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Morris County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Morris 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 Morris County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Morris 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 Morris 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.