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 23, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Leesburg, Virginia, in Loudoun County, has about 50,000 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 Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Loudoun Circuit Court. 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: Leesburg public records, Loudoun County arrest records, Virginia arrest records and Virginia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Leesburg
The FBI lists Leesburg with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Leesburg Police Department. It reported 779 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 Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 4,385 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Loudoun County: the Loudoun County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Leesburg Reports
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.
- Leesburg: 779 for 2025, 850 for 2024, 709 for 2023, 496 for 2022, 409 for 2021 and 564 for 2020.
Leesburg's 779 arrests in 2025 were down 8.4 percent from 850 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Leesburg reported 386 arrests, against 457 in the same months of 2025.
Across Loudoun County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,210 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Leesburg Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Leesburg 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.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 280 people, down from about 390 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 476 beds, and it ran at 83 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 Loudoun County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.loudoun.gov (page title: Sheriff | Loudoun County, VA), phone 703-777-1021, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Virginia Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at vadoc.virginia.gov/family-and-friends.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Leesburg
For Leesburg the place to look is Online Case Information System, the Virginia courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
Virginia does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Virginia State Police 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 Leesburg
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 working days, and it may charge the actual cost of searching and copying.
- An arrest by the Leesburg police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at leesburgva.gov/departments/police/contact-leesburg-police/request-a... (page title: Request an Offense Report | Town of Leesburg, Virginia), phone 703-771-6506, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 703-777-1021.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at loudoun.gov (page title: Submit a Request for Public Records | Loudoun County, VA).
- Your own statewide record: a request to the State Police Central Criminal Records Exchange; a check on someone else needs their signed consent.
The Loudoun County guide covers every agency in the county: Loudoun County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Leesburg each year?
Leesburg reported 779 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Leesburg?
Ask the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office at 703-777-1021; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.loudoun.gov.
Where are people arrested in Leesburg booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Leesburg?
The court files of criminal cases in the Loudoun Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Virginia State Police is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Leesburg?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Leesburg police for its own arrests, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 working days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at loudoun.gov.
Is this the official Leesburg 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.