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 October 2, 2026.
Carbon County, Wyoming, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Carbon County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Carbon 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: Carbon County public records, Wyoming arrest records, Wyoming inmate search and Wyoming criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Carbon County
The Carbon County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Carbon County. It reported 256 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists two cities in Carbon County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Rawlins, 7,952 residents: 873 arrests reported for 2020.
- Saratoga, 1,760 residents: 6 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 Carbon 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.
- Rawlins: 873 for 2020 and 952 for 2019.
- Carbon County Sheriff's Office: 256 for 2020.
- Saratoga: 6 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 8 for 2020 and 47 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2020 on file reported 1,137 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2020 and 2019 complete reported 881 in 2020 against 999 in 2019, down 12 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Carbon County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Carbon 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 2023 the jail held about 43 people, down from about 52 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 72 beds, and it ran at 72 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 Carbon County Sheriff's Office at carboncountysheriff.com (page title: Carbon County Sheriff's), 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 Wyoming Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at wdoc-loc.wyo.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Carbon County
Whether someone was arrested in Carbon County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Carbon County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at wyocomet.wyo.gov/repositories/2/resources/2096, phone (307) 777-7826); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at carboncountywy.gov/937/County-Attorney, phone 307-328-2700).
Wyoming does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation 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 Carbon 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 Wyoming Public Records Act the agency must answer within 30 days at most, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Carbon County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Rawlins or Saratoga: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 307-328-2700, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Carbon County, through the court records page at wyocomet.wyo.gov, phone (307) 777-7826.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at carbonwy.govqa.us (page title: Public Records Request Portal | Carbon County, WY).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation.
Cities in Carbon County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the ten cities in Carbon County: Rawlins and Saratoga. Hanna, Encampment, Baggs, Sinclair, Medicine Bow, Elk Mountain, Dixon and Riverside 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 Carbon County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Carbon County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Rawlins (7,952)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Carbon County each year?
Rawlins reported 873 arrests to the FBI for 2020, and the three agencies with every month of 2020 on file reported 1,137 between them.
Where are people arrested in Carbon County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Carbon County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Carbon County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Carbon County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Wyoming Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Carbon County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Carbon County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Wyoming Public Records Act the answer is due within 30 days at most; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at carbonwy.govqa.us.
Is this the official Carbon 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.