The Mohave County Adult Detention Center is in Kingman, near the sheriff's office on Highway 66. Its number is 928-753-0759. People arrested in Lake Havasu City or Bullhead City may wait in a city holding cell before the drive to Kingman, which can take an hour or more.

If the Mohave roster page is down when you try, VINELink for Mohave County is a free Mohave backup.

Use Mohave County Inmate Search, run on the county's own website. Search by last name. Keep the booking number for money and court.

Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City are a long way from Kingman, and transport often waits until several people are ready. After that, booking takes time. Call 928-753-0759 with the legal name and birthday. If there's no record, try the arresting city.

Arizona officers may release someone after a misdemeanor arrest with a notice to appear in court. That is common in the river cities for minor crimes. A domestic violence arrest is handled differently and usually ends in booking.

Arizona allows only 24 hours between the arrest and a judge; miss that and release follows. In Kingman these first hearings run every day over a video link, and release conditions come out of them.

The law presumes release on a promise to appear. Judges can add a bond, pretrial supervision, or no-contact rules if needed. For a handful of grave felonies, a Kingman judge can order detention after a hearing. Read our Mohave bail guide.

Call 928-753-0759 to get the amount and ask which payments are taken. Bondsmen charge a fee, kept even after the case ends, to post the full amount. Holds from other places can stop a release.

Felonies go to Mohave County Superior Court in Kingman, which also holds hearings in Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City. Misdemeanors go to justice courts or the city courts in Kingman, Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City. The county attorney answers at 928-753-0719. Hearing dates appear in the statewide court lookup online. See the Mohave court steps.

When a Kingman judge rules someone can't pay, the county public defender takes the case. Ask for one in the first hearing. Anything said on a jail phone is taped.

Begin with the courts' online warrant list, then phone the sheriff's office at 928-753-0753 to ask about holds from other agencies, including Nevada or California. The DPS warrant search adds a statewide check, and the courts' Public Access lookup can reveal open cases elsewhere in Arizona. If another warrant exists, a lawyer can ask the issuing court to set bond so your relative is released in one step. The Superior Court clerk's office in Kingman can help with felony case numbers at 928-753-0713.

Video visits are the main option, either on your own device or at terminals in Kingman. Sign up first. If hours aren't listed, call the jail or check online. See Mohave visitation and home video visits.

Prepaid accounts let you get calls. Commissary money goes on the books online or at the lobby kiosk. Guides: Mohave phones, messages, tablets, deposits, Mohave commissary.

Use the inmate's name and booking number with your return address. Leave cash out. Confirm the rules at Mohave inmate mail.

Phone 928-753-0759 and ask to give jail medical a message. Share medicines and the doctor's name. Mention suicide risk at once.

The juvenile detention center in Kingman holds minors, reachable at 928-753-0740, extension 4050. They aren't on the adult list. See our Mohave juvenile page.

The Hualapai Tribe at Peach Springs, the Fort Mojave Tribe near Bullhead City and the Kaibab Paiute Tribe north of the Grand Canyon each have tribal police and courts. Tribal jails stand apart from the county system.

Callers promising release for gift cards, crypto or wires are lying. Pay the jail, the court or your chosen bail agent. Call the jail yourself to check.

Call the Mohave County Adult Detention Center at 928-753-0759 and ask three things: is the person there, what is the booking number, and what is the bond.

Federal arrests start with teams from the Postal Inspection Service, Homeland Security Investigations, or the ATF, sometimes alongside state police. Hearings for Kingman cases take place in the U.S. courthouse in Flagstaff, 123 North San Francisco Street, Suite 200, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, under Arizona's federal district, Prescott Division. With questions, call the Flagstaff clerk at 928-774-2566. Expect a short interview with a pretrial services officer before court. An initial appearance comes fast, before a magistrate judge. Bail is not a set price in the federal courts. Using the federal Bail Reform Act, the judge holds a short hearing and decides release or detention.

Search for them with the county roster first. The Marshals in Flagstaff track anyone held on federal charges; call 928-213-0135. The office is at 123 North San Francisco Street, Suite 101, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Meanwhile, the Marshals usually keep the person in a nearby jail by contract. Following sentencing to prison, the person moves to federal prison (the BOP). Track them with the BOP locator by register number.

• Jail fingerprints are compared with national records that ICE uses. Then ICE might place a detainer.
• A posted bond won't clear the detainer.
• A 48-hour limit applies; the detainer just asks the jail to wait before opening the door while a pickup is set up. After the 48 hours are up, the detainer expires.
• ICE agents often collect them within those 48 hours. If ICE never collects them, that means release on the local case.
• The next stop depends on ICE.
• Arizona is handled by ICE's Phoenix ERO office, at 2035 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004; call 602-257-5900.
• To see which center holds them, visit the Online Detainee Locator System, then give the A-number on ICE papers with their country of birth. ICE also offers a search by full name, which needs country of birth, DOB, and the name they were booked under.

If a judge imposes a prison term, the person becomes an ADCRR inmate under Arizona's corrections department. Until then, most people wait in the Kingman jail while the ADCRR schedules the move, sometimes for weeks. The transfer ends at reception, where they get processed. There, staff weigh gang connections, physical and emotional health, and security risk. Their final step is a unit that fits their rating.

You can look up the person by full name on the state inmate lookup. Our Arizona state prison page explains every state unit.

When a mugshot isn't online, reporters can call the sheriff's office, 928-753-0753 and ask. The federal government does not release booking photos to the public or media. Marshals policy keeps release to three cases: to find an escaped prisoner, when people nearby must be protected right away, or if sharing it may help find them or alert the public. For an ICE booking photo, send an ICE records request; ICE must sign off.

• Kingman Police: 928-753-2190
• Lake Havasu City Police: 928-855-1171
• Bullhead City Police, non-emergency dispatch: 928-763-1999
• Colorado City Marshal's Office: 928-875-2695
• Mohave County Sheriff's Office, non-emergency: 928-753-0753

Fort Mohave, Golden Valley, Mohave Valley, Dolan Springs and Littlefield are covered by sheriff's deputies.