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.
Pecos County, Texas, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pecos County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one other agency. 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 Pecos 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: Pecos County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pecos County
The Pecos County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pecos County. It reported 41 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Pecos County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Fort Stockton, 8,147 residents: 131 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Pecos County: the Pecos County Constable's Precinct 3 (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pecos 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.
- Fort Stockton: 131 for 2025, 154 for 2024, 205 for 2023, 104 for 2022, 84 for 2021 and 187 for 2020.
- Pecos County Sheriff's Office: 41 for 2025, 29 for 2024, 19 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 172 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 172 in 2025 against 183 in 2024, down 6 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 87 arrests, against 77 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pecos County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pecos 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 30 people on an average day, down from about 33 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 49 beds, and it is running at 61 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 Pecos County Sheriff's Office at co.pecos.tx.us/department/pecos-county-sheriffs-department/ (page title: Pecos County Sheriff’s Department | Pecos County), phone (432) 336-3521, 1774 N Hwy 285 P.O. Box 1647 Fort Stockton, TX 79735, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Pecos County
For Pecos County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.pecos.tx.us/department/83rd-district-attorney, phone (432) 336-3322).
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 Pecos 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 Pecos County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (432) 336-3521.
- An arrest in Fort Stockton: 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 Pecos County Constable's Precinct 3: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (432) 336-3322, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Pecos County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Pecos County: Fort Stockton. Iraan 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 Pecos County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Pecos County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Fort Stockton (8,147)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pecos County each year?
Fort Stockton reported 131 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 172 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pecos County?
Ask the Pecos County Sheriff's Office at (432) 336-3521; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.pecos.tx.us.
Where are people arrested in Pecos County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pecos County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pecos 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 Pecos County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pecos 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 Pecos 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.