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Cle Elum Busted Custody

Cle Elum sits in Kittitas County. The 2020 Census counted 2,157 residents. The shared Cle Elum–Roslyn Police Department patrols the town. Here is how the paperwork flows. An arrest in town can produce a city police report. But a county custody entry appears only after Kittitas County Jail, known as KCJ, accepts the person. The city itself points to the Ellensburg jail as its confinement route. For the official picture, start with the department description or the KCJ roster, since each answers a different question.

A booking is a custody event and nothing more. What follows can vary widely. Release, transfer, reduced charges, or a full court case are all possible. For the result of a case, the court record is the right source.

Cle Elum Busted Records

The city publishes no booking feed, no arrest log, and no photo gallery on its official police pages. Questions about who is locked up get routed to the county inmate roster instead. That roster is a plain text register. It will not surface booking photos. And the city police department does not hold every KCJ record anyway.

Check the official rows before trusting any third-party publisher. The Mugshots.com view shows year navigation running only from 2012 through 2018. That leaves it stale at best and wrong at worst. It cannot tell you who is in custody now. It cannot tell you how a case ended.

No daily city arrest log exists online. No municipal custody list does either. KCJ has no verified same-day booking feed. The current-custody table is the closest official look once someone enters the jail. The separate release table covers only a stated three-day window.

Find a Cle Elum Booking

When someone is reported busted in Cle Elum, skip the city and go straight to the county system, since no separate online booking feed exists at the municipal level. The Kittitas County custody and booking lookup lays out the fuller route, covering the differences between current custody, a recent release, a records request, and a court case.

1. Open the KCJ roster and review the In custody table for a person currently accepted at the jail.
2. Review the separate Recently released table for a departure within the prior three days.
3. Use the table headings to browse or sort Names and Arrest Date, then open the row-level Details control. The public page does not offer a dedicated name or booking-number search box.
4. For the city incident report, submit a request to the shared police department. For a KCJ booking file or possible photo, direct the request to KCSO Records.

One caution about the roster. Its city and state field lists a residence, not the place of an arrest. Do not read it as proof of where something happened. A shared name deserves a second look too. The roster is a limited custody display, not an identity check.

Note: An arrest can happen without the person ever entering KCJ, and someone released may drop off the roster once the release window closes.

Cle Elum Police Records

City police material lives with the shared Cle Elum–Roslyn Police Department. That covers incident reports, investigative files, and miscellaneous records. Requests currently run through NextRequest. The department cites RCW chapters 42.56, 10.97, and 13.50 as part of the legal scope governing what it releases. Exemptions apply. A request might come back produced, redacted, clarified, or denied in part under the law.

Describe the record clearly when you file. Include names if you have them. Add the incident date or a date range. An incident number helps too. Aim the request at what the department truly keeps. A KCJ booking record or booking-photo request is different. That material belongs with KCSO Records, the county holder for custody files.

Cle Elum Busted Confinement

Cle Elum has no municipal jail of its own. The 2025–27 city/county confinement agreement names Kittitas County Jail as the place where a city prisoner is held, meaning anyone booked or housed at KCJ for an alleged city offense. That agreement makes the record split plain. The shared police department may hold the city incident file, while KCJ keeps the booking and custody material for adults.

One more thing worth knowing. The sheriff's Cle Elum substation is not a second jail or a second roster. A single county roster serves Cle Elum, Ellensburg, Kittitas, and the unincorporated areas whenever a person is actually at KCJ.

Why Cle Elum Roster Fields Matter

The KCJ roster splits into two tables. One covers people currently held. The other lists releases from the prior three days. A current row gives you a name, age, city and state, local ID, and arrest date, plus links labeled Details and VINE. Recent-release rows swap the local ID for a release date. Open the Details pane and you may find more: age, sex, arrest date, release status, offense information, and total bail.

No booking photograph appears. Neither table nor the Details pane shows one. Calling this a live mugshot roster would mislead. There's no guaranteed refresh time either. No same-day booking clock exists. No weekly archive exists either. Timing questions go straight to the jail. For an older booking already identified, KCSO Records is the better route.

When Cle Elum Busted Bookings Appear

KCJ's roster follows a persistence rule. It does not promise instant publication. The current table lists people housed at the jail. The second table covers only releases from the past three days. Someone can be booked, transferred, or released and simply not appear, for reasons the interface never spells out. Read each row narrowly. An in-custody line means KCJ custody at that moment. A release line means a departure during the stated window. Bail figures in Details can shift, and the jail directs bail questions to its office rather than treating the roster as the last word.

Note: The web roster has no booking-photo output and no published refresh schedule, so a missing entry settles nothing either way.

What Cle Elum Records Cost

Copies run $0.15 per page at the Cle Elum Police Records page. That figure belongs to the city police alone. It does not apply to every Kittitas County office. An older document described a different first-ten-pages practice. The current page is the better source. Don't assume any waiver.

Kittitas County's code keeps inspection free. Searching, redaction, and an exemption index cost nothing too. Copying and other lawful charges can still apply to a request. Send your request to whichever office created or maintains the record, since the police department, jail, and court each hold different files.

Where Cle Elum Arrest News Appears

The Daily Record leads local news for Cle Elum and the wider county. Its local hub and internal arrest search surface story-based reporting, not a routine booking-photo gallery. Up the county, the Northern Kittitas County Tribune serves Cle Elum, Roslyn, and nearby towns as a weekly. No standing police blotter or mugshot section exists there. NBC Right Now covers broader Kittitas County crime and court stories when newsworthy. A Cle Elum booking feed it is not. Sheriff press releases and the Sheriff Facebook news channel are official announcements, not a complete chronological arrest list. For outlet-by-outlet detail, see Crime News & Mugshots. Then confirm any reported event through the roster, KCSO Records, or the court.

Cle Elum Busted Claims

A press story, city record, roster entry, or old publisher listing may point to a Cle Elum arrest or booking. Treat each as a lead, not a conclusion. A KCJ release tells you only that the person left that custody setting.

To track a filed case, the Washington court-record guide points you to the right court path. Someone moved into state prison sits in a different system entirely. That person is searchable through the WA DOC incarcerated search, not the KCJ roster. Keep those systems separate. Each answers a different question.