Crow Wing County, Minnesota

People arrested in Crow Wing County are booked into the Crow Wing County Jail, the detention center the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office runs at 313 Laurel Street in Brainerd, MN 56401. Licensed by the State of Minnesota to hold up to 276 people, the direct-supervision jail houses adult men and women who are awaiting court dates or serving sentences. Arrests made by the Sheriff's Office and by city police departments across the county are processed, photographed, and held here as each case moves through the district court. After booking, a person may be released on bail or stay in custody until a first court appearance, and the arrest becomes part of the county's public booking records.

To find out who is currently being held, the Sheriff's Office publishes an In Custody List on the county website, searchable by name, booking number, or charge. For booking photos and earlier arrest records from across the Brainerd lakes region, you can also open the full Crow Wing County mugshot gallery on this site.

About Crow Wing County

Home to about 66,000 residents at the 2020 census, Crow Wing County sits in north-central Minnesota with Brainerd as its county seat and largest city. The county takes its name from the Crow Wing River, whose own name comes from an island near its mouth long said to resemble a crow's wing. Brainerd grew up as a Northern Pacific Railway town in 1870 and still serves as the region's hub for trade, retail, and health care, while Baxter, Crosby, Deerwood, Nisswa, and Pequot Lakes round out the county's communities.

Tourism drives the modern economy. The Brainerd Lakes area is one of Minnesota's best-known vacation destinations, and Crow Wing State Park preserves the wooded confluence of the Crow Wing and Mississippi Rivers where the frontier town of Crow Wing once stood. In the county's northeast, the Cuyuna Range that once shipped iron ore now centers on the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area, where flooded mine pits and purpose-built trails have turned the old mining towns into a nationally recognized mountain-biking destination. Like Hennepin County, the state's most populous county, and St. Louis County, the large northern county anchored by Duluth, Crow Wing keeps its arrest and booking records open to the public; you can find more in the statewide Minnesota mugshots directory.