Gila County Arrest Records

Gila County arrest records are prepared by law enforcement officers whenever arrests are made in the county. These official documents describe important details about arrest events. Law enforcement agencies that can conduct arrests in Gila County include the Sheriff’s Office, police departments in the county, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, and federal law enforcement agencies. Once apprehended, an arrestee is held at the detention facility of the arresting agency. They may subsequently be transferred to correctional facilities after they have been charged to court. When arrestees in the county are charged to court, details from their arrest records are used to prepare the Gila County court records produced during their trials.

Are Arrest Records Public in Gila County?

Yes. Title 39 of the Arizona Revised Statutes expressly grants public access to law enforcement records. This means that Gila County arrest records are public records unless expunged or sealed by court order. Arizona also exempts these types of arrest records from public access:

• Juvenile arrest records
• Those containing details that prevent fair trial in an ongoing case
• Those containing details that may interfere with active investigations
• Those revealing the identities of protected persons such as informants, victims of abuse etc.

What Do Public Arrest Records Contain?

A publicly available arrest record provides the following information about the arrest it documents:

• Name and age of the arrestee
• Physical descriptors of the arrestee such as their gender and race
• Mugshot of the arrestee taken when booking them
• Arresting officer/agency
• Reason for the arrest
• When and where the arrest was made

Gila County Arrest Statistics

The Gila County Sheriff’s Office publishes annual reports about the activities of the agency and states the number of arrests it records every year. In 2022, the Sheriff’s Office recorded a total of 1,068 arrests. While this figure does not include arrests made by other local law enforcement in the county, it is representative of the number of arrests made annually in Gila County. Out of this total, 504 arrests were for felony offenses while misdemeanors accounted for 564 arrests. There are two county jails in Gila, both operated by the Sheriff’s Office. This agency provides no data about jail population or intake on its website.

Find Gila County Arrest Records

To locate a Gila County arrestee, you need to know the law enforcement or correctional service holding them and keeping their arrest record. Individuals arrested by the county’s Sheriff’s Office may be detained at the Globe or Payson jail. Locating the arrestee requires calling the Globe Jail Facility at (928) 402-8666 or the Payson Jail Facility at (928) 468-2835.

A Gila County arrestee detained by state law enforcement is likely to be held in a state prison. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) provides an Inmate Data Search tool on its website for finding such individuals. To find Gila County arrestees detained at federal correctional facilities, you should use the inmate locator tool provided by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Free Arrest Record Search in Gila County

The inmate locator tools provided by the BOP and ADCRR offer free searches for arrest and inmate records. With these official lookup tools, it is possible to locate Gila County arrestees. You can also find third-party arrest record finders offering free searches. Such independent lookup tools can help you save time if you are unsure where an arrestee is being held. However, these free services may provide limited search results that need to be verified against official records.

Gila County Arrest Records Vs. Criminal Records

Gila County arrest records only describe individual arrests made by officers of the law in the county. In contrast, a Gila County criminal record is a complete history of one individual’s engagement with the criminal justice system in the county. Therefore, a criminal record includes records of all criminal arrests, charges, trials, and incarceration. This is a more complete document and the record produced from a background check.

When seeking a Gila County arrest record, you simply only need to contact the law enforcement agency that made the arrest. If you are looking for your Gila County criminal record, you should contact the Arizona Department of Public Safety to request to review the record.

How Long Do Arrests Stay on Your Record?

In the State of Arizona, an arrest stays on your record until you turn 99 when the record is then purged. It is possible to erase the record of an arrest if you can get a court to expunge it.

Expunge Gila County Arrest Records

Expunging a criminal or arrest record has only been recently allowed in Arizona. However, Arizona only allows expungement for some low-level marijuana-related offenses. To be eligible for this record expunction, the offense must be committed before November 30, 2020 and involve any of the following:

• Possession, consumption, or transportation of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana comprising no more than 12.5 gram of marijuana concentrate
• Possession, transportation, or cultivation of up to 6 marijuana plants for personal use
• Possession, use, or transportation of marijuana paraphernalia

If the arrest record you wish to seal falls under one of these categories, you can petition a Gila County court to expunge your record. Start by completing and filing the appropriate expungement form at the court where the case resulting from the arrest was heard. The court will then notify the prosecutor’s office and await their response for 30 days. If the prosecutor does not challenge your petition, the court will grant the expunction of the arrest record. If the prosecutor chooses to contest the petition, the court will set a date to hear both parties before ruling on the expungement application.

Gila County Arrest Warrants

A Gila County arrest warrant is a legal document signed by a judge in a court in the county authorizing the apprehension of a named individual. Typically, officers of the law approach judges to approve warrants for the arrest of individuals suspected of committing crimes. These law enforcement officers must provide probable cause to convince the judge that an arrest is needed.

The information contained in a Gila County arrest warrant include:

• The subject of the warrant or the person to be arrested
• Probable cause or reason for the arrest
• Name and signature of the judge approving the warrant
• Gila County court where the subject must appear after booking them
• When the warrant was issued

Do Gila County Arrest Warrants Expire?

No. Once signed by a judge, a Gila County arrest warrant does not expire until the individual named on it is apprehended or until the judge recalls and quashes the warrant.