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 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Tooele County, Utah, has about 84,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tooele County Sheriff's Office and three 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Tooele County. 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: Tooele County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tooele County
The Tooele County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tooele County. It reported 625 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Tooele, 40,919 residents: 1,811 arrests reported for 2025.
- Grantsville, 15,682 residents: 203 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wendover, 1,133 residents: 1,182 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tooele 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.
- Tooele: 1,811 for 2025, 1,602 for 2024, 1,420 for 2023, 1,359 for 2022, 1,126 for 2021 and 1,281 for 2020.
- Wendover: 1,182 for 2025, 1,160 for 2024, 1,181 for 2023, 1,185 for 2022, 1,140 for 2021 and 1,149 for 2020.
- Tooele County Sheriff's Office: 625 for 2025, 675 for 2024, 735 for 2023, 655 for 2022, 665 for 2021 and 968 for 2020.
- Grantsville: 203 for 2025, 303 for 2024, 218 for 2023, 334 for 2022 and 443 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,821 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,821 in 2025 against 3,740 in 2024, up 2.2 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,276 arrests, against 2,201 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tooele County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tooele 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.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 200 people, down from about 210 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 211 beds, and it ran at 101 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Tooele County Sheriff's Office at inmate.tooelecountysheriff.org (page title: Tooele County | Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
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 Tooele County
Whether someone was arrested in Tooele County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Tooele County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tooeleco.gov/departments/courts_and_legal/justice_court.php, phone (435) 843-3230); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tooeleco.gov/departments/courts_and_legal/attorney/index.php, phone (435) 843-3120).
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 Tooele 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 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 Tooele County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Tooele, Grantsville or Wendover: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (435) 843-3120, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Tooele County, through the court records page at tooeleco.gov, phone (435) 843-3230.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tooeleco.gov (page title: Tooele County).
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Tooele County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the eight cities in Tooele County: Tooele, Grantsville and Wendover. Erda, Lake Point, Stockton, Rush Valley and Vernon 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 District Court for Tooele County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tooele County each year?
Tooele reported 1,811 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,821 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Tooele County?
Ask the Tooele County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at inmate.tooelecountysheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Tooele County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tooele County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tooele County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Tooele 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 Tooele County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tooele County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 tooeleco.gov.
Is this the official Tooele 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.