Creek County, Oklahoma

How a case moves here

Creek County follows Oklahoma law on arrests, release, and courts. These rules are the same in every county in the state; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first: Before a person sees a judge, the jail may release on a bail schedule the district's presiding judge sets by order, and the sheriff may sign the release order where court rule allows. A judge sets or confirms bail at the first appearance or when charges are filed. Police and sheriffs may not release anyone arrested for domestic abuse, stalking, harassment, or a protective order violation until a judge sees them.
22 O.S. sec. 1105 22 O.S. sec. 1105.2 (in force until 2026-12-31)
Time to see a judge: A person arrested must be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. Oklahoma statute sets no hour limit.
22 O.S. sec. 181
Money bail: Oklahoma allows money bail, and each judicial district may adopt a money bail schedule that it reviews every year. Pretrial bail is set as a dollar amount.
22 O.S. sec. 1105.2 (in force until 2026-12-31)
Courts: The district court in each of the 77 counties hears almost all criminal cases, felonies and misdemeanors alike. District judges, associate district judges, and special judges all sit in the district court. City municipal courts hear violations of city ordinances.
Oklahoma County District Court, District Court 11 O.S. sec. 27-103
Judges and magistrates: Voters elect district judges and associate district judges in nonpartisan elections for four-year terms, and the governor fills vacancies. The district judges appoint special judges, and a few special judges are not lawyers, who may hear only small misdemeanors. The mayor appoints municipal judges for two-year terms; most must be lawyers.
Oklahoma County District Court, District Court 20 O.S. secs. 121.1, 122, 123 11 O.S. sec. 27-104

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. SB 1618 (2026) rewrites 22 O.S. 1105.2 from 2027-01-01; recheck first_bail, money_bail, and pretrial_assessment then. Whether the Oklahoma County jail trust has been dissolved was not confirmed. Oklahoma's district court is a single general trial court; only municipal courts sit below it.

What this county does differently

Nothing county-specific yet

Whether Creek County runs a pretrial services office, uses a risk assessment, or has its own bail schedule appears here once a cited source says so.

Cities and towns

Sapulpa22,570
Bristow4,272
Mannford town3,269
Stroud2,793
Kiefer town2,639
Drumright2,361
Mounds town1,059
Kellyville town1,047
Oilton921
Depew town391
Slick town142
Lawrence Creek town134

Every city, village, town, and township with any of its land in Creek County, largest first. Population, the whole place's: Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.

Police agencies

Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29. An agency that serves several counties appears on each. Population served is the FBI's figure.

Crime

The crime index

Crime index offenses reported by agencies in Creek County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
Violent crime	158	133	114	109	162	184	426
Murder	1	5	2	1	1	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	6.4
Rape	31	33	23	24	38	41	63
Robbery	8	7	7	7	12	11	39
Aggravated assault	118	88	82	77	111	130	318
Property crime	1,202	996	896	775	835	1,283	2,191
Burglary	296	231	231	170	173	300	468
Larceny	665	587	543	499	525	769	1,446
Motor vehicle theft	241	178	122	106	137	214	277
Arson	8	8	10	6	7	11	18

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by agencies in Creek County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
All offenses outside the crime index	1,803	1,934	1,831	1,846	1,797	2,513	3,337
Simple assault and intimidation	480	523	508	551	570	718	1,234
Vandalism	239	221	208	196	199	290	503
Fraud	151	162	177	116	152	207	417
Drug abuse violations	707	804	724	796	676	1,011	708
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	73	53	54	70	66	86	134
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	74	62	40	45	58	76	72
Forgery and counterfeiting	27	37	41	17	18	38	68
Embezzlement	19	19	15	11	6	19	45
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	15	19	30	18	15	26	63
Prostitution and commercialized vice	1			2	1	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	7.6
Other Group A offenses	17	34	34	24	36	40	84
Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total)				2		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	1.6

Offenses agencies in Creek County reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the reporting agencies police, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside Oklahoma's rate over the same years. Agencies that reported part of a year are counted with their people, as the state's rates count them. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Oklahoma: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.