From the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office:
During calendar year 2025, there were a total of 2,008 persons booked into the Baxter County Detention Center by all law enforcement agencies, compared to 1,998 in calendar year 2024. These are broken down by the following agencies:
1,212 Baxter County Sheriff’s Office
10 Arkansas Community Corrections
3 Arkansas State Parks
92 Arkansas State Police
14 Cotter Police Department
2 Drug Enforcement Agency
14 Arkansas Game and Fish
99 Gassville Police Department
1 Arkansas Highway Police (DOT)
5 Lakeview Police Department
538 Mountain Home Police Department
15 Norfork Police Department
3 U. S. Marshal Service
TOTAL: 2,008
Many of these 2,008 bookings included multiple charges. A sample of the offenses included in these 2,008 bookings are as following:
187 Drug charges
156 Driving While Intoxicated
128 Theft of Property
21 Burglary
127 Domestic Violence charges (Battery and Assault)
40 Battery (non-domestic related)
11 Assault (non-domestic related
10 Sex crimes
Male arrestees constituted 1,462 of the bookings, while female arrestees accounted for 546 bookings. Of these 2,008 bookings, 547 of them included one or more felony charges, while the remainder consisted of only misdemeanor charges.
