Identify the Cactus Arrest Event
Match the name to the incident date, police record, county booking, and court cause number. The custody trail must show whether Cactus police released the person from municipal control or transferred the person to the Moore County sheriff or another agency.
Was There a Cactus Booking
The Cactus Police Department investigates incidents, makes arrests, and may hold a person briefly while officers complete the next legal step. If detention continues, a Cactus arrest ordinarily moves into the Moore County booking system. That handoff matters. A departure from a police interview or holding area is not automatically a Moore County Jail release, and an arrest record does not prove that the county ever accepted custody.
Start by asking which agency accepted the person and at what point. The answer determines the next official record. If Moore County Jail booked the person, the sheriff's booking and release transaction is the direct custody record. If no county booking occurred, the Cactus police incident or arrest record and the municipal or county court file may be the more durable trail. An outside warrant can produce a transfer to another county. A federal or immigration hold can create another handoff rather than a return to the community.
For a Cactus event, the useful sequence is: Cactus police contact, magistrate or bond action, receiving-facility booking, custody exit, then court disposition or supervision when applicable. Keep names, dates, incident numbers, booking numbers, and court cause numbers separate. Similar numbers may refer to different systems.
Check the Cactus Handoff
No official Dumas released-inmate archive was identified in the researched city materials. The department page is a police contact source, not a person-level release feed. Moore County's sheriff page also does not publish a roster or recent-release list. It instead points custody-status users to VINELink. The lack of a web result should lead to a custody-chain check, not a guess that someone is free.
- Contact Cactus police with the full name, arrest date, and incident number if known. Ask whether another agency accepted custody.
- If the answer is Moore County Jail, search VINELink under Texas and request the sheriff's existing booking and release fields.
- Ask for the destination or receiving agency if the sheriff record says transfer.
- Use the court cause number to locate a bond order, dismissal, judgment, or sentence that explains the legal authority.
- Continue in TDCJ, BOP, ICE, or another county system when the record identifies that custodian.
Release from a Cactus police hold and release from Moore County Jail are different events. Confirm whether a county booking occurred.
Cactus Police Records Contact
Dumas publishes a verified department address and non-emergency telephone number. Use that channel for the police incident, arrest, report identifier, or receiving-agency question. The research does not establish a city jail release desk, a public release-record fee, or a guaranteed response time. Ask how a public-information request should be submitted and request an existing record. Texas Government Code Chapter 552 permits requests for governmental records but does not require an agency to answer open-ended questions or create a new report.
No verified Cactus Police Department street address, telephone number, records hours, or separately regulated jail was found in the assigned research. Confirm the current official city channel before submitting a request.
Be precise. Give the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, location, and incident number. Ask for the arrest or incident report and any documented transfer or release from municipal control. Sensitive, juvenile, active-investigation, victim, medical, security, and other protected material may be withheld or redacted. Verify current access instructions before visiting because the researched source does not establish records-counter hours.
Cactus Hold or County Booking
Each agency proves a different part of the event. Cactus police can document the stop, incident, citation, arrest, and handoff. The Moore County Sheriff's Office can document a county booking and custody exit. A court custodian can provide the filed order or judgment. None of those records should be forced to answer a question owned by another office.
| Question | Best record |
|---|---|
| Why did police make contact? | Cactus incident or arrest record |
| Did county custody begin? | Moore County booking record |
| When did county custody end? | Sheriff release transaction |
| What authorized bond or disposition? | Filed court order or judgment |
| Did another custodian receive the person? | Transfer destination and receiving record |
A Cactus citation can resolve the police contact without creating a Moore County booking. A short municipal hold may also end after a magistrate process. In those cases, there is no Moore County Jail release record to find. Conversely, once the sheriff accepts custody, later release details belong to the county system even though Cactus police made the arrest.
Cactus Jail and Court Records
The Moore County Sheriff's Office is at 700 S. Bliss Ave. in Dumas and publishes 806-935-4145 for the office. Its page refers users to VINELink but exposes no official roster, 24-hour list, 72-hour archive, mugshot gallery, or sheriff app. Ask for booking number and time, arresting agency, charge, bond, court, release date and time, release authority, and destination where those fields exist. Moore County does not publish a local jail copy fee or guaranteed turnaround in the reviewed material.
Court records are maintained at the courthouse, not at the jail. The District Clerk handles felony court records from 715 S. Dumas Ave., Room 109, and publishes 806-935-4218. The researched hours are Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to noon, subject to verification. County-level matters may belong with the County Clerk. The cause number helps staff identify the right document.
A docket date is not a release time. A bond order can authorize release, but the jail transaction shows when processing ended. No local processing-time promise was found, so do not rely on generic estimates from unrelated Texas facilities.
Cactus Transfers Are Not Releases
A Cactus arrest can end in a county, state, federal, immigration, or outside-county system. Transfer from police to the sheriff is continued custody. Transfer from Moore County Jail to TDCJ after a felony sentence is also continued custody. TDCJ assigns people statewide; no TDCJ prison was identified in Moore County. The Choice Moore Unit is in Fannin County and should not be mistaken for a local facility.
If a federal writ or detainer controls the move, consult the federal docket and the receiving agency. USMS pretrial detainees may not appear in the BOP sentenced-prisoner locator. If an immigration detainer follows local custody, the person can leave the sheriff's control and enter ICE custody. The ICE locator is a current-custody tool, not a release archive, and absence can have several causes.
- Handoff
- Transfer of responsibility from one agency to another.
- Release
- End of a particular custodian's control, sometimes to another custodian.
- Disposition
- The court outcome or order affecting the case.
- Detainer
- A request or legal basis for another authority to take custody.
Cactus Release Record Corrections
Send a correction to the agency that created the disputed layer. Cactus police controls its incident and arrest report. The sheriff controls Moore County booking, custody, and release fields. The clerk or court controls the docket, order, and judgment. TDCJ Classification and Records controls state sentence and confinement data. Asking one office to edit another office's record leads to delay.
For a police-record issue, identify the exact field and supply the department's report number. For a jail timestamp or destination issue, provide the booking number and the conflicting official document. For a court-file issue, use the cause number and filing title. Expunction under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A and nondisclosure under Government Code Chapter 411 are court-governed remedies with case-specific rules. A person should not try to rebuild a record that an official source lawfully withholds.
Note: Keep the Cactus incident number, sheriff booking number, and court cause number together, but do not treat them as interchangeable identifiers.
After Cactus Community Release
A person who returns to the community may still have a pending case or supervision duty. Probation, called community supervision in Texas, is imposed by a court and may follow a county-only case that never appears in TDCJ. Parole and mandatory supervision follow state confinement and are administered through TDCJ, with decisions made by the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Full discharge is different from supervised release.
The Parole / Probation resource distinguishes those systems. For a county-wide search and the field-by-field release-record path, use the Moore County released inmates hub. The final confirmation should name the agency, record date, and custody event. That keeps an old arrest report from being mistaken for present custody and keeps a transfer from being mislabeled as freedom.