Grand Junction Booking Reports

Grand Junction booking reports are created when someone is arrested in the city and booked at the Mesa County Jail. Grand Junction is the largest city on Colorado's Western Slope, with a population of about 65,000. It serves as the county seat of Mesa County. The Grand Junction Police Department handles arrests in the city, but the Mesa County Sheriff's Office runs the jail and maintains all booking records. This page covers how to find booking reports from Grand Junction arrests and what resources are available for searching those records online or in person.

Grand Junction Police and Mesa County Jail

The Grand Junction Police Department is the main law enforcement agency in the city. Their non-emergency number is 970-549-5000. When GJPD officers arrest someone, the person gets transported to the Mesa County Detention Facility for booking. The jail is at 532 S. 1st Street in Grand Junction. Since Grand Junction is the county seat, the jail is right in the city, making it easy for residents to access booking information in person.

The Mesa County Sheriff's Office handles all bookings at the detention facility. You can reach the sheriff at 970-244-3500. Staff at the jail perform the standard booking steps when someone arrives. They take fingerprints, a booking photo, and enter the charges into the system. The booking report becomes a public record at that point. Whether the arrest was made by GJPD, the Mesa County Sheriff's deputies, the Colorado State Patrol, or any other agency operating in the area, the booking happens at the same facility and the report is kept by the same office.

Search Grand Junction Bookings Online

Mesa County offers limited online access to booking information. The Mesa County Sheriff's Office website at mesacounty.us/sheriff has information about jail services, but the online inmate search tools may not be as robust as some of the larger Front Range counties. For current inmates, you may need to contact the jail directly at 970-244-3500 to check on someone's booking status.

The CBI criminal history check at cbirecordscheck.com is another option. For $6.00, you can run a name-based search that pulls arrest records from across Colorado, including Mesa County. This is the best way to do an online search for Grand Junction booking data if the county does not have a full online inmate lookup tool. The CBI database contains records reported by local agencies and gives you a statewide view of someone's criminal history.

VINE at vinelink.com is the free inmate tracking system. Register, select Colorado, and search by name. VINE alerts you when someone's custody status changes at the Mesa County Detention Facility. It covers releases, transfers, and other changes. The toll-free number is 1-888-263-8463.

Note: Grand Junction is isolated on the Western Slope, so for most searches you will be working with Mesa County resources specifically.

Request Grand Junction Booking Records

Colorado's Criminal Justice Records Act at C.R.S. 24-72-301 et seq. gives you the right to inspect booking records. The Mesa County Sheriff's Office must respond to your request within 3 working days. They can take up to 7 more days if the request is large. The first hour of staff time is free. After that, fees may apply for staff time and copies. Paper copies generally cost $0.25 per page.

Contact the Mesa County Sheriff's Office at 970-244-3500 or visit their location in Grand Junction to make a records request. You can ask for records by name, booking date, or case number. Under C.R.S. 24-72-302, arrest records must include the person's name, the arresting agency, the date and place of arrest, and the charges filed. This is the baseline for what a Grand Junction booking report should contain.

Booking photos from Grand Junction arrests are public records under C.R.S. 24-72-305.5. Publishing them online and then charging a fee to take them down is against the law in Colorado. This rule applies to all booking photos held by the Mesa County Sheriff's Office.

Western Slope Booking Records

Grand Junction sits on the Western Slope of Colorado, far from the Front Range cities where most of the state's population lives. The nearest large cities are hours away. Pueblo is the closest city of any significant size with a page on this site, and it is about four hours east by car. Because of this isolation, most Grand Junction booking records are handled entirely within the Mesa County system. There is less overlap with other counties compared to Front Range cities where county lines are close together.

This also means the Mesa County Sheriff's Office is the one place you need to go for Grand Junction booking data. You do not need to worry about checking multiple counties the way you might for a city like Longmont that sits on a county border. If someone was arrested in Grand Junction, the booking report is at the Mesa County Detention Facility. The only exception would be if the arrest was made by a federal agency, in which case federal booking records would be held separately from the county system.

The Colorado Department of Corrections runs an offender search at doc.state.co.us/oss for people who have been sentenced to state prison. This tool covers the whole state, including inmates who were originally booked in Grand Junction. It does not replace the county booking report, but it can help you track someone who was convicted and moved to the prison system.

How Grand Junction Bookings Work

After an arrest in Grand Junction, the person is brought to the Mesa County Detention Facility on S. 1st Street. Intake staff confirm the person's identity and record their information. Fingerprints and a booking photo are taken. The charges are entered into the system based on what the arresting officer provides. The booking report is then on file with the sheriff's office. The whole process can take a few hours depending on how many people are being processed at the time.

For minor offenses, officers sometimes issue a citation or summons to appear in court rather than making a full arrest. In those cases, there is no booking at the county jail and no booking report on file with the sheriff. The Grand Junction Police Department would have the citation records instead. If you cannot find a booking report for someone you think was arrested in Grand Junction, it is possible they were cited and released rather than booked at the jail.

Note: Federal arrests in Grand Junction may go through federal facilities rather than the Mesa County Jail.

Nearby Cities

Grand Junction is geographically isolated on the Western Slope. There are no other cities with pages on this site in the immediate area. Pueblo is the closest major Colorado city to the east, but it is roughly four hours away by car. For booking records from Grand Junction, work directly with the Mesa County Sheriff's Office.