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 on September 23, 2026.
Yakima County, Washington, has about 259,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Yakima County Sheriff's Office and 12 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Yakima County Superior 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: Yakima County public records, Washington arrest records, Washington inmate search and Washington criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Yakima County
The Yakima County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Yakima County. It reported 567 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists 12 cities in Yakima County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Yakima, 97,390 residents: 3,777 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sunnyside, 16,317 residents: 580 arrests reported for 2025.
- Grandview, 11,599 residents: 555 arrests reported for 2025.
- Toppenish, 8,658 residents: 355 arrests reported for 2025.
- Selah, 8,653 residents: 399 arrests reported for 2025.
- Union Gap, 6,582 residents: 703 arrests reported for 2025.
- Moxee, 4,791 residents: 55 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wapato, 4,492 residents.
- Granger, 3,789 residents: 1,166 arrests reported for 2025.
- Zillah, 3,123 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2024.
- Mabton, 1,960 residents: 1,166 arrests reported for 2025.
- Tieton, 1,610 residents.
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 Yakima 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.
- Yakima: 3,777 for 2025, 3,502 for 2024, 2,969 for 2023, 3,223 for 2022, 3,393 for 2021 and 3,331 for 2020.
- Mabton: 1,166 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,188 for 2023, 1,187 for 2022, 1,188 for 2021 and 1,188 for 2020.
- Granger: 1,166 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,188 for 2023, 1,187 for 2022, 1,188 for 2021 and 1,188 for 2020.
- Union Gap: 703 for 2025, 848 for 2024, 793 for 2023, 723 for 2022, 518 for 2021 and 718 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Sunnyside: 580 for 2025, 793 for 2024, 745 for 2023, 862 for 2022, 848 for 2021 and 758 for 2020.
- Yakima County Sheriff's Office: 567 for 2025, 832 for 2024, 754 for 2023, 329 for 2022, 618 for 2021 and 849 for 2020.
- Grandview: 555 for 2025, 447 for 2024, 321 for 2023, 258 for 2022, 261 for 2021 and 244 for 2020.
- Selah: 399 for 2025, 424 for 2024, 477 for 2023, 383 for 2022, 204 for 2021 and 281 for 2020.
- Toppenish: 355 for 2025, 334 for 2024, 398 for 2023, 404 for 2022, 500 for 2021 and 443 for 2020.
- Moxee: 55 for 2025, 59 for 2024, 78 for 2023, 52 for 2022, 67 for 2021 and 49 for 2020.
- Zillah: 17 for 2024.
Together, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 9,323 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 9,323 in 2025 against 9,615 in 2024, down 3 percent.
Through June 2026, the nine agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,684 arrests, against 4,086 in the same months of 2025.
Zillah reported only part of 2025 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Yakima County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Yakima 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.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 580 people, down from about 1,080 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,069 beds, and it ran at 60 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 Yakima County Sheriff's Office at yakimacounty.us/1891/Jail-Records (page title: Jail Records | Yakima County, WA), 128 North 2nd Street, Yakima, WA 98901, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Washington State Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.wa.gov/records/incarcerated-data-search/incarcerated-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Yakima County
For Yakima County the place to look is the case index of the Yakima County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at yakimacounty.us/439/Find-My-Court-Date, phone 509-574-1804).
Statewide, Washington Courts Search Case Records is the Administrative Office of the Courts' free statewide case search.
Washington is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: WATCH lets anyone search conviction records by name online, for $12 a search, through the Washington State Patrol. 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 Yakima County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56) the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge for copies at 15 cents a page, and set fees for electronic records.
- An arrest by the Yakima County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Yakima, Sunnyside, Grandview, Toppenish, Selah, Union Gap or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Yakima County Superior Court, through the court records page at yakimacounty.us/439/Find-My-Court-Date, phone 509-574-1804.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Yakima County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 12 of the 14 cities in Yakima County: Yakima, Sunnyside, Grandview, Toppenish, Selah, Union Gap, Moxee, Wapato, Granger, Zillah, Mabton and Tieton. Naches and Harrah 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 Yakima County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Yakima County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Yakima County each year?
Yakima reported 3,777 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the ten agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 9,323 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Yakima County?
Ask the Yakima County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at yakimacounty.us/1891/Jail-Records.
Where are people arrested in Yakima County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Yakima County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Yakima County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Washington State Patrol: WATCH lets anyone search conviction records by name online, for $12. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56).
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Yakima County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Yakima County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56) the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Yakima 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.