Beaver County Jail Inmate Bail & Bonds

Bond on most charges is a judge's call. County cases are heard by the District Court inside the courthouse at 111 Second Street, Beaver, OK 73932. It is one piece of Judicial District 1, a four-county district with Cimarron, Harper and Texas. Oklahoma's Constitution guarantees every county a resident associate district judge (Okla. Const. art. VII § 8).

How soon your relative sees that judge depends on the docket. The Court Clerk can tell you the day if you ring 580-625-3191.

• Repeat DUI. Starting November 1, 2025, a deputy can't turn someone loose on a second or later DUI. A judge sets that bond and gives written reasons (HB 1222).
• Town ordinance charges. These belong to the Town of Beaver Municipal Court instead.
• Video hearings. Since November 1, 2024, an arraignment can happen by video if your relative is sitting in some other county's jail (SB 1711).

An Oklahoma judge has six main tools for letting someone wait for trial at home:

• Cash. Anyone may pay the full sum to an officer with authority to accept bail, and your relative is then let go (59 O.S. § 1323).
• Surety. A licensed bondsman signs for the full sum, and you pay that bondsman a fee (59 O.S. § 1303).
• Property. Real estate is put up in place of money. The side filing that pledge covers its filing fees (59 O.S. § 1331).
• Own recognizance. Your relative walks out on a signed promise to return, paying nothing first (22 O.S. § 1108.1).
• Pretrial programs. Under the Pretrial Release Act, courts may use release programs and electronic monitoring, like an ankle bracelet (22 O.S. §§ 1105.2, 1105.3).
• License in place of cash. On some traffic, boating or game-law tickets, a driver license can be left as bail (22 O.S. § 1111).

To hear which tool the judge picked, ring the Court Clerk at 580-625-3191.

A bond figure comes either from the judge or from a set schedule for certain charges, and the Pretrial Release Act covers both schedules and monitoring (22 O.S. § 1105.2). Think of local charges in these groups:

1. Town of Beaver tickets. The town keeps its own bond schedule, linked from the Beaver Police Department page.
2. State traffic, boating and game-law tickets. Separate bail rules apply (22 O.S. § 1115.3).
3. Simple drug possession. Counted as a misdemeanor since State Question 780 took effect July 1, 2017.
4. Stealing property worth under $1,000. Also a misdemeanor after that same vote moved the felony line.
5. DUI number two or higher. No schedule. A judge alone sets it (HB 1222).
6. Third felony DUI or beyond. Since November 1, 2025, the judge can refuse bond outright (SB 981).
7. Fresh violent charge while already bonded out on an earlier violent case. The law presumes your relative stays locked up, though that can be overcome (HB 3782).
8. Murder, other violent crimes, life-sentence crimes and major drug cases. Bond may be denied (Okla. Const. art. II § 8).

For the real number in your relative's case, phone the jail at 580-625-4549 or the Court Clerk at 580-625-3191.

The jail building is at 215 Avenue E, Beaver, OK 73932. The Sheriff's office works out of the courthouse, 111 Second Street, Beaver, OK 73932. Work through this list:

1. Dial 580-625-4549 and say you are calling about bond for someone in the jail.
2. Give their legal name, spelled out, and their birthday. Write down the charge, the total and any case number staff read you.
3. Find out whether the money is taken at the jail or must go across to the Court Clerk.
4. Ask what forms of money work, and the exact payee to write when you buy a cashier's check or money order.
5. Arrive with picture ID and the money. Hold on to each receipt.
6. Give staff time to finish. State jail rules make them confirm who is leaving and return stored items before the door opens (OAC 310:670-5-1).

Office hours at the Sheriff's Office are listed as 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For a late-night or weekend bond, ask on the phone how it gets handled.

Two windows in the county handle court money. Each serves different cases, so phone first.

• Court Clerk, District Court. Beaver County Courthouse, 111 Second Street, Beaver, OK 73932, 580-625-3191. Letters go to P.O. Box 237, Beaver, OK 73932. Hours run 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with no lunch closing. This office collects court costs for the court fund. Ask if it can accept a cash bond on your relative's case, and which kinds of payment it takes.
• Town of Beaver office. 316 Douglas Avenue, Beaver, OK 73932, 580-625-3331. Use it for town tickets and Municipal Court matters. Ask how to post a bond on a town charge and when staff are in.

From Forgan, Gate or Knowles? Ask the Court Clerk which court your town's case lands in.

Full cash is the safest choice, because Oklahoma law lets any person post a cash bond on someone's behalf (59 O.S. § 1323). Before the drive in, ring the jail at 580-625-4549. Ask about cards, cashier's checks and money orders, and whether a fee gets added.

The town police page lists two ways to settle a Town of Beaver ticket:

• Phone payments at 800-444-1187
• Web payments through trafficpayment.com

Both are only for town citations. Neither can free someone held on a county charge. Never send cash by mail to the jail or the court.

Think of a bondsman as a guarantor. Rather than paying the court, the bondsman vouches that your relative will appear, and you pay a premium for that. The Oklahoma Insurance Department licenses, supervises and disciplines these businesses.

• Before writing a bond here, a bondsman needs a state license and must sign up with the Court Clerk (59 O.S. §§ 1303, 1320).
• The premium goes on the bond itself, and your receipt carries a unique number (59 O.S. § 1316).
• Once your relative is free, the premium is earned. If your relative stays locked up, the bondsman must hand back the premium plus any collateral right away (59 O.S. § 1327).
• Jailers and police can't double as bondsmen. Hunting for clients inside a jail can cost a bondsman the license (59 O.S. §§ 1310, 1315).
• Verify a license using the state's bondsman license search. Problems go to the online complaint form.

You'll find the Insurance Department at 400 NE 50th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. Bail bond questions go to 405-521-6610.

Each bond is tied to a single case. Look out for:

• A hold placed by another Oklahoma town or county. Under HB 1991, which took effect in late 2025, you may pay that other bond too, and the hold then ends.
• A DUI that is not the first. Your relative sits until a judge sets the amount (HB 1222).
• Probation or parole. State Corrections can ask the jail not to release.
• A town case on the side. Municipal Court needs a bond of its own.
• Federal or immigration papers. These run on separate rules.

Prior to paying, call 580-625-4549 and have staff list each hold out loud.

Oklahoma's Constitution makes bail the rule for nearly everyone. Bond can be withheld only for the charge types in Okla. Const. art. II § 8:

• Capital crimes, when proof of guilt is plain
• Violent offenses
• Charges that can end in life behind bars, whether parole is possible or not
• A new felony when there are already two felony convictions from separate events
• Drug offenses where the most prison time allowed is a decade or more

For every category except capital crimes, the judge also has to find strong proof and conclude that release terms of any kind would leave the community or someone in it unsafe. Excessive bail is banned too (art. II § 9). As of November 1, 2025, third-time felony DUI was added (SB 981).

At a release hearing, the state's side is argued by the District Attorney, District 1, whose local office is 111 W. 2nd Street, Beaver, OK 73932, 580-625-3388. Staff there work 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with a noon to 1:00 p.m. break. Crime victims get to speak at release hearings as well (Okla. Const. art. II § 34).

Oklahoma bars bail that is excessive (art. II § 9). Your relative's defense lawyer may ask the judge for a smaller figure or easier terms. To build the request:

1. Line up a lawyer first. One may be free if money is short.
2. Gather pay stubs, a lease or deed, the names of close family nearby and a figure for the most your household can raise.
3. Propose terms aimed at the judge's worries, maybe a monitor or a pretrial program.
4. Be ready for the prosecutor to push back, and for any victim to be heard.

The Court Clerk at 580-625-3191 can say when that request will reach the bench.

Oklahoma's top criminal court decided that anyone facing a felony or a misdemeanor that could bring jail time is entitled to a lawyer (Spybuck, a 2025 case). Locally, those lawyers come through the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System (OIDS). One OIDS office in Guymon covers all four counties in this district.

• OIDS Guymon office: 1001 N Main St, Guymon, OK 73942, 580-290-6875
• Applying: Pick up and turn in the form at the Court Clerk's counter. From inside the jail, your relative asks staff for one.
• The decision: A judge weighs assets, debts and income (22 O.S. § 1355A). Having bond money is considered, yet it can never be the sole reason for a denial.
• Cost: Applying costs $40, which goes to the Court Fund. Your relative may ask to put that off until the case closes.

Calling OIDS won't get a lawyer assigned, because only the judge appoints one. OIDS headquarters sits at 111 N. Peters Ave, Suite 500, Norman, OK 73069, 405-801-2601.

• District Court (felonies, misdemeanors, youth matters): Beaver County Courthouse, 111 Second Street, Beaver, OK 73932. Court Clerk 580-625-3191, open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Town of Beaver Municipal Court (town ordinance tickets): reach it through the town office, 316 Douglas Avenue, Beaver, OK 73932, 580-625-3331. Court sits once a month, and the remaining 2026 dates are November 18 and December 16.
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma (federal crimes): 200 NW 4th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5000, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Charges from Forgan, Gate or Knowles can go to different courts. The Court Clerk will tell you where a given case sits.

When the case wraps up, or when your relative is surrendered to the court, a cash bond is refunded (59 O.S. § 1328). Save the receipt and bring photo ID to claim it. A bondsman's premium works differently: after release it counts as earned, so it stays with the bondsman.

Skipping court sets off a timeline under 59 O.S. § 1332:

• Within 10 days, the judge issues a warrant for arrest.
• Within 15 days, the forfeiture order is filed. The clerk mails notice no more than 30 days later.
• From that order, a bondsman gets 90 days to return your relative to court, which cancels the forfeiture.
• If the 90 days pass with no return, the bondsman or insurer owes the clerk the bond's face value.

In Municipal Court the forfeiture can be ordered on the missed day itself, with court costs taken from the bond (11 O.S. § 27-118). Refund questions go to the Court Clerk at 580-625-3191.

Sort out cash and belongings before your relative leaves. Oklahoma jail rules require staff to check items against the booking inventory, and the person leaving signs the list (OAC 310:670-5-1). A judge may also order a prisoner to cover the cost of jail time (22 O.S. § 979a), so ask if fees will be taken from the balance.

Ring the jail at 580-625-4549 about how a leftover balance gets refunded and when forgotten items can be fetched. Bring ID with your picture on it. Picking up a bag that belongs to someone else? Find out if staff need a note signed by its owner. For deposits during custody, read our page on adding money to an inmate account.

Federal charges skip the county judge. Panhandle cases go before the federal court for western Oklahoma, called the Western District of Oklahoma, with a clerk's office at 200 NW 4th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5000.

• Early on, a federal judge weighs freedom against custody until trial. That step is called a detention hearing (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• Anyone held for trial is in U.S. Marshals Service custody. Ask that office where your relative is housed: 200 Northwest 4th Street, Room 2022, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-231-4206.
• Prisoners being moved can stop at the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73169, 405-682-4075.
• The Federal Public Defender, 215 Dean A. McGee Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5930, gives free federal defense.
• Once sentenced, your relative shows up in the Bureau of Prisons search.

No. A detainer survives the bond. This is what usually follows:

1. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) asks for a hold using Form I-247A.
2. With it, jail staff may wait up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE officers come for your relative. Oklahoma falls under the ICE Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.
4. Detainees can be moved to Cimarron Correctional Facility, 3200 S. Kings Hwy., Cushing, OK 74023, detainee line 918-225-3336.
5. Type their name and birth country into the ICE detainee search.

Oklahoma also wrote a state immigration offense, HB 4156 (21 O.S. § 1795), but a federal judge's order stops it from being enforced while the appeal is decided. In-state, ICE keeps an office at 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108, 405-219-3199.

Oklahoma's Department of Corrections (DOC) handles prison sentences, and the transfer takes a while. DOC says the wait in county jail after sentencing is normally 6 to 9 months. After that, DOC sends your relative to an assessment and reception center, rates their custody level and picks a prison to match.

• Days spent in jail before sentencing are almost always credited.
• Certain crimes, including armed robbery and first degree burglary, require serving 85% before any parole review (21 O.S. § 13.1).
• Search for an inmate with the DOC Offender Lookup.
• Facility details are on our Oklahoma prisons directory.

DOC headquarters: 4345 North Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-425-2500.

Teens are placed in juvenile detention, never in the adult cells. State rules allow a jail to keep a minor six hours at most, just for identifying, processing or transport, and must house the teen where adult prisoners can't keep seeing or hearing them (OAC 310:670-5-5). Here the state's Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA) handles youth matters. It is the agency that licenses every detention center statewide.

• A held teen should face a judge on the next court day. A problem like transport can stretch that to the second court day.
• Ages 15 through 17 facing serious charges can be handled as youthful offenders. A judge may also send the case to adult court through certification.
• The Court Clerk holds the records of youth cases, 580-625-3191.

To track down which center holds a teen, phone the Sheriff's Office at 580-625-4549, or OJA at 2501 N. Lincoln Blvd., Suite 500, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-530-2800.