Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Moab, Utah, in Grand County, has about 5,200 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Grand County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Moab public records, Grand County arrest records, Utah arrest records and Utah inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Moab
The FBI lists Moab with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Moab Police Department. It reported 174 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Grand County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 348 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Moab Reports
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.
- Moab: 174 for 2025, 204 for 2023, 273 for 2022, 358 for 2020 and 464 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
Through July 2026, Moab reported 95 arrests, against 98 in the same months of 2025.
Across Grand County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 522 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Moab Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Moab 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.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 20 people, down from about 36 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 73 beds, and it ran at 49 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Grand County Sheriff's Office at grandcountyutah.net/947/Jail-Inmate-List (page title: Jail Inmate List | Grand County, UT), 125 E. Center St. Moab, UT 84532, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Utah Department of Corrections lists its inmates at corrections.utah.gov/inmate-services/offender-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Moab
Whether someone was arrested in Moab, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Grand County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Grand County, kept by the clerk of court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at grandcountyutah.net/506/Attorney, phone 435-259-1324).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at grandcountyutah.net/584/Justice-Court (page title: Justice Court | Grand County, UT), phone 435-259-1334, belongs to a lower court, not to the District Court for Grand County.
Statewide, MyCase and Xchange is free case lookup for parties through MyCase; the public Xchange search is by subscription.
Utah does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Moab
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Government Records Access and Management Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 5 when the request is expedited, and it may charge copying and staff time after the first quarter hour.
- An arrest by the Moab police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at moabcity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/686/Police-RecordReport-Request (page title: MOAB CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORDS REQUEST FORM), 217 East Center Street Moab, UT 84532, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Grand County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 435-259-1324, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the District Court for Grand County it is kept by the clerk of court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at grandcountyutah.net/584/Justice-Court, phone 435-259-1334, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at grandcountyutah.net (page title: Open Records Request | Grand County, UT).
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Grand County guide covers every agency in the county: Grand County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Moab each year?
Moab reported 174 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Moab?
Look on the custody page of the Grand County Sheriff's Office at grandcountyutah.net/947/Jail-Inmate-List. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Moab booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Grand County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Moab?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Grand County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Government Records Access and Management Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Moab?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Moab police for its own arrests, the Grand County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Government Records Access and Management Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 5 when the request is expedited; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at grandcountyutah.net.
Is this the official Moab website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.