Crockett splits criminal cases three ways, by how heavy the charge is:

• Felonies, state jail level through capital murder, go to the 112th District Court. The District Clerk keeps those papers on Avenue D.
• Class A and B misdemeanors land in Crockett's County Court, led by the County Judge. Here a conviction can mean time in the Hwy 163 jail. Filing is with the County Clerk.
• Class C misdemeanors, fine-only, go to the Precinct 1 justice of the peace.

The 112th rides a circuit through Pecos, Reagan, Sutton and Upton counties too, so its Crockett felony dockets fall on set days.

These offices share the courthouse and its annex at 909 Avenue D, Ozona, TX 76943. Call during business hours before you drive over.

• 112th District Court office: 325-392-5225. Letters: P.O. Drawer C, Ozona, TX 76943.
• District Clerk and County Clerk: one shared line, 325-392-2022, and the same P.O. Drawer C.
• County Judge, who runs County Court: 325-392-2965. Letters: P.O. Box 1857, Ozona, TX 76943.
• Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1: 325-392-2253, or email jp@co.crockett.tx.us. Letters: P.O. Box 2067, Ozona, TX 76943.

Since several courts use one building, ask which room before your hearing day.

Ozona is the county seat and the main town. It is run by the county itself, and the regional council of governments lists no city government here, so tickets written in town are county cases.

Every fine-only Class C case from Crockett's ranch roads, highways and town streets lands on Avenue D, with the Precinct 1 judge, 325-392-2253. Traffic fines can be paid on that court's citation payment page. If a ticket names some other court, use the number printed on it.

Money tight? The Precinct 1 judge can allow time payments, community service credited at $150 per 8 hours, or a waiver. Under CCP arts. 45A.252-45A.261, nobody is locked up for a skipped Class C fine until that judge has held a hearing on it.

Texas law gives officers 48 hours to bring your loved one before a magistrate, in a room or by video (Texas Code of Criminal Procedure art. 15.17, cited below as CCP). Justices of the peace act as magistrates (art. 2A.151), so Crockett's Precinct 1 judge often handles it. During those few minutes, your person hears the magistrate do these things:

• reads the charge out loud
• covers silence, hiring counsel, having counsel during questioning and ending questioning
• on felonies, notes the examining trial option and warns that statements can be used
• hands over the court-appointed lawyer form and helps complete it
• sets bail and release terms (art. 17.028)

Art. 16.22 adds a mental health step: when a Hwy 163 jailer suspects illness, word goes to the magistrate the same day. Bond in Ozona is covered on our bail page.

Crockett's County Attorney charges Class A and B offenses with a written accusation called an information. Your loved one then pleads at arraignment (art. 26.01). Plea bargains settle most of these. When the County Judge won't follow a deal, the judge has to say so, and the person may withdraw the plea (art. 26.13). Unsettled cases are tried.

The Penal Code chapter 12 caps for Crockett's misdemeanors:

• Class C: a fine up to $500, never jail
• Class B: as long as 180 days in Crockett's jail, a fine of $2,000, or both
• Class A: as long as a year in Crockett's jail, a fine of $4,000, or both

A County Court judge may put off a guilty finding. If your person completes the supervision, up to two years, the case is dropped (arts. 42A.101, 42A.103). Misdemeanor probation tops out at two years as well. Crockett's probationers check in with the Pecos County probation office, 111 West Gallagher, Fort Stockton, TX 79735, 432-336-8562.

A Crockett felony usually travels this road:

1. Magistrate hearing within the first 48 hours, which settles bail.
2. Examining trial, on a defense request before indictment, testing whether there's probable cause (art. 16.01).
3. Indictment. The 112th District Attorney takes evidence to a grand jury, and an indictment needs nine of its votes (art. 20A.301).
4. Arraignment and pretrial motions on the 112th's Crockett docket.
5. Plea or trial, then sentencing.

Felony sentence lengths come from Penal Code chapter 12. At the bottom rung sit state jail felonies: these put your person in a state jail unit, with 180 days as the floor and 2 years as the cap. Some of those get Class A punishment instead. A third-degree conviction can bring as little as 2 or as much as 10 years. Second degree doubles that top to 20. First degree starts at 5 and runs to 99 or life. Fines on any of these can reach $10,000. Earlier felony convictions on your person's record can lift the range a notch.

Under arts. 42A.053 and 42A.103, felony probation, deferred or regular, may last as long as 10 years.

Crockett's violent cases run under tighter rules:

• No personal bond on the state's violent offense list (art. 17.03).
• Bail refused. Proposition 3, which Texans passed in November 2025, now sits in the state constitution (art. I, §11d). On murder, aggravated sexual assault and some other grave charges, the Crockett judge has to say no to bail if the state shows, at a hearing, that your person might run off or harm someone.
• State appeals. On listed violent charges, the 112th District Attorney may appeal when it judges the bail set on Avenue D to be too low. The person stays in the Hwy 163 jail meanwhile, and the appeals court has 20 days (art. 44.01).
• Protective orders. On family violence, the magistrate can sign an emergency order at the first hearing, lasting from 61 up to 91 days. When there was a weapon or serious bodily injury, it can run 91 up to 121 days (art. 17.292).
• Capital murder. If a Crockett jury convicts on capital murder, the result is death, or life behind bars without parole. Someone younger than 18 when it happened can only get life (PC 12.31). Crockett's capital cases are defended by a regional capital public defender office based in Lubbock (mail: PO Box 2097, Lubbock, TX 79408), 806-696-3740.

Crockett cases are prosecuted by these two offices:

• 112th District Attorney, handling felonies for Crockett, Pecos, Reagan, Sutton and Upton counties. Office in the courthouse at 909 Avenue D, Ozona, TX 76943, 325-392-2025. Letters: P.O. Box 1187, Ozona, TX 76943. Second office: 400 South Nelson, Fort Stockton, TX 79735, 432-336-6294.
• County Attorney, misdemeanors, in the same courthouse, 325-392-3920. Letters: P.O. Box 4150, Ozona, TX 76943.

For defense, Crockett appoints private lawyers in turn from a list. On a felony, the request form comes from the magistrate, and the 112th's felony appointment plan sets a three-working-day limit, counted from receipt, to name counsel. On a misdemeanor, the County Judge chooses under the misdemeanor appointment plan. Art. 26.04 then gives that lawyer roughly one working day to try reaching your person in the Ozona jail. Statewide oversight: Texas Indigent Defense Commission, 209 West 14th Street, Room 202, Austin, TX 78701, 866-499-0656.

Phone the clerk. Crockett keeps felony and misdemeanor files in one office, 325-392-2022. Give the name and birth date, then jot down the case number, which court it is in and the next setting. For a Class C ticket, the Precinct 1 court answers at 325-392-2253.

The state's re:SearchTX site shows charges and judgments once you open a free account. For hearing times, trust the Avenue D clerk over any website.

Ask the Sheriff's Office on Hwy 163 to look up a name; its deputies serve warrants from Ozona out to the county line: 325-392-2661. The clerk at 325-392-2022 can search court files, and the Precinct 1 court at 325-392-2253 can search tickets. Only the state's biggest fugitive cases reach the DPS Texas 10 Most Wanted list. When a Crockett warrant turns up, call a lawyer before anything else. After that, your person can walk into the Hwy 163 jail, 121 S. Hwy 163, Ozona, TX 76943, or the lawyer can request that the judge who issued it reset the case. Court files sit in the courthouse, 909 Avenue D, Ozona, TX 76943.

Federal cases from Crockett go to San Angelo: the Northern District of Texas courtroom in the O.C. Fisher Federal Building, 33 E. Twohig Avenue, Room 202, San Angelo, TX 76903, 325-655-4506.

1. A federal magistrate judge there decides at a detention hearing whether your loved one goes home before trial (18 U.S.C. 3142).
2. If not, the U.S. Marshals Service takes custody, usually placing the person in a contract county jail. Its San Angelo office, open during court terms, sits at 33 East Twohig Street, Suite 106-D, San Angelo, TX 76903, 325-658-4056.
3. Prosecutors answer to the Northern District's U.S. Attorney, 1100 Commerce Street, 3rd Floor, Dallas, TX 75242, 214-659-8600. The Federal Public Defender's Dallas headquarters is 525 South Griffin Street, Suite 629, Dallas, TX 75202, 214-767-2746.
4. For anyone sent to federal prison, the BOP inmate locator shows the facility.

The state case keeps moving, but release from the Hwy 163 jail may be delayed:

1. A Form I-247A detainer from ICE goes into the jail's file.
2. The jail may keep your loved one up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Texas makes its jails follow these holds; your person avoids one only by showing lawful status (art. 2A.060). No Texas town or county may restrict immigration enforcement, either (Gov't Code 752.053).
4. Under a 2025 state law, Texas sheriffs running jails had until December 1, 2026 to pursue an ICE partnership known as 287(g). Crockett's Sheriff's Office can tell you if Ozona signed one.
5. Once ICE has custody, the ICE Online Detainee Locator searches by A-number, or by name and the person's home country.

If your person isn't a citizen, have the defense lawyer spell out the immigration fallout before any guilty plea.

A state jail sentence is spent at a state jail facility. Sentences for third-degree felonies and higher go to TDCJ, Texas's prison agency (PC 12.31-12.35). After sentencing, Crockett holds your loved one until TDCJ intake, and TDCJ then picks a fitting unit.

Once your person leaves Ozona for prison, the TDCJ inmate search shows their unit by name or TDCJ number. People still waiting on Hwy 163 won't appear until TDCJ receives them, and results refresh on working days. Visits and mail at each unit: our Texas prisons page.

Charged children aged 10 to 16 stay in the juvenile system. From the 17th birthday on, Texas charges people as adults (Tex. Fam. Code 51.02). A juvenile board covering Crockett along with two neighbors names the juvenile court and keeps a juvenile lawyer plan.

• Parents must be told quickly (Fam. Code 52.02).
• Your teen, if kept in custody, is given an appointed lawyer, and a judge reviews the hold within a couple of working days. Weekend pickups on Friday or Saturday move it earlier (Fam. Code 54.01).
• After a special hearing, a judge may transfer a teen's case to adult court. Capital and first-degree cases qualify at 14; other felonies qualify at 15 (Fam. Code 54.02).

Crockett has no juvenile detention center on the state registry, so a held child is placed out of county. The Sheriff's Office, 325-392-2661, knows where and when the hearing is.

Under CCP art. 56A.051, a Texas crime victim can have safety weighed at bail, get hearing notices on request, and give an impact statement before sentencing. For felony notices, call the 112th District Attorney at 325-392-2025.

• Custody alerts. Free and confidential, Texas IVSS-Counties alerts you to a booking, a release or a court event. Its phone line, in English or Spanish, is 866-268-8959.
• Costs. Crockett victims with medical, therapy or lost-income costs can ask for up to $50,000 from the state's Crime Victims' Compensation program: 800-983-9933.
• Protection. On family violence, an emergency order may be signed at the first hearing (art. 17.292).