Mayes County, Oklahoma

How a case moves here

Mayes 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 Mayes 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

Every city, village, town, and township with any of its land in Mayes 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 Mayes County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
Violent crime	125	124	126	133	127	316	426
Murder	1	2	4	6		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	6.4
Rape	16	29	20	22	23	55	63
Robbery	12	5	5	3	6	15	39
Aggravated assault	96	88	97	102	98	239	318
Property crime	930	949	804	636	722	2,009	2,191
Burglary	205	209	186	112	139	423	468
Larceny	537	572	494	427	485	1,250	1,446
Motor vehicle theft	188	168	124	97	98	336	277
Arson	13	21	13	18	14	39	18

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by agencies in Mayes County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
All offenses outside the crime index	1,203	1,521	1,548	1,378	1,352	3,481	3,337
Simple assault and intimidation	459	609	602	515	518	1,344	1,234
Vandalism	216	227	192	157	154	470	503
Fraud	91	104	136	118	112	279	417
Drug abuse violations	276	362	373	364	342	854	708
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	46	60	65	65	51	143	134
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	37	40	43	50	46	107	72
Forgery and counterfeiting	17	23	27	18	20	52	68
Embezzlement	7	6	10	10	9	21	45
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	35	59	35	29	34	95	63
Prostitution and commercialized vice		2	1	1	3	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	7.6
Other Group A offenses	19	29	64	51	63	112	84

Offenses agencies in Mayes 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.