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.
Culpeper County, Virginia, has about 56,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Culpeper County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one state 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 Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Culpeper Circuit 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: Culpeper County public records, Virginia arrest records, Virginia inmate search and Virginia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Culpeper County
The Culpeper County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Culpeper County. It reported 692 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Culpeper County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Culpeper, 21,464 residents: 720 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 Culpeper County: the Culpeper County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Culpeper 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.
- Culpeper: 720 for 2025, 909 for 2024, 977 for 2023, 1,158 for 2022, 841 for 2021 and 788 for 2020.
- Culpeper County Sheriff's Office: 692 for 2025, 1,067 for 2024, 870 for 2023 and 666 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,412 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,412 in 2025 against 1,976 in 2024, down 29 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 518 arrests, against 918 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Culpeper County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Culpeper 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 2025 the jail held about 69 people, down from about 73 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 37 beds, and it ran at 198 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 Culpeper County Sheriff's Office at web.culpepercounty.gov/community/page/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Culpeper County VA), phone (703) 887-8041, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Culpeper County
For Culpeper County 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 Culpeper 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 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 Culpeper County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (703) 887-8041.
- An arrest in Culpeper: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Culpeper County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the State Police Central Criminal Records Exchange; a check on someone else needs their signed consent.
The other Culpeper County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Culpeper County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Culpeper, the one city in Culpeper County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Culpeper Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Culpeper County each year?
Culpeper reported 720 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,412 between them.
Where are people arrested in Culpeper County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Culpeper County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Culpeper County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Culpeper 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 Culpeper County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Culpeper County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 working days.
Is this the official Culpeper 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.