Idabel
City in McCurtain County, 6,987 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: McCurtain County Sheriff's Office.
A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- County
- McCurtain County
- People
- 6,987
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Idabel follows Oklahoma law on arrests, release, and courts; 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. 110522 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)
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.
Crime
Offenses reported by Idabel Police Department, Idabel's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025* | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 31 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 225 | 431 |
| Murder | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 6.8 | |||
| Rape | 5 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 64 | ||
| Robbery | 3 | 2 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 41 | ||
| Aggravated assault | 22 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 168 | 319 |
| Property crime | 302 | 296 | 219 | 146 | 130 | 3,444 | 2,287 |
| Burglary | 74 | 40 | 54 | 34 | 27 | 722 | 494 |
| Larceny | 213 | 242 | 156 | 108 | 99 | 2,571 | 1,495 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 15 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 150 | 298 |
| Arson | 1 | 3 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 19 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025* | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 375 | 279 | 236 | 295 | 183 | 4,238 | 3,365 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 167 | 109 | 104 | 148 | 107 | 1,888 | 1,219 |
| Vandalism | 56 | 47 | 36 | 23 | 21 | 579 | 530 |
| Fraud | 13 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 11 | 157 | 422 |
| Drug abuse violations | 104 | 95 | 72 | 110 | 36 | 1,362 | 709 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 14 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 134 | |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 76 | ||||
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 73 |
| Embezzlement | 9 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 104 | 48 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 2 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 65 | ||
| Other Group A offenses | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 82 |
Offenses Idabel Police Department 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 department polices, 2021 to 2024 added together, full years only, beside Oklahoma's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
* 2025: reported for part of the year only, so the count is short and the year is left out of the rate.
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.