Sunray Busted Arrests and City Records
Sunray sits third on the Moore County map. The 2020 Census counted 1,707 residents. It runs a small-city police department. There is no public arrest feed to lean on. That makes the contact route matter more than usual. The official City of Sunray contact page carries City Hall details, and a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation project record lists a police facility at that same address. Neither one posts a blotter, booking results, or any photo policy.
Arrestees from Sunray usually land in the Moore County Jail system. So the record path has two legs. Ask Sunray Police for the incident or arrest report. Then ask the Moore County Sheriff's Office about the booking entry or any photo it can release. A city report may exist with no jail booking behind it. The county can also book someone another agency arrested, so a booking record alone will not always point back to a Sunray Police event.
Custody is separate from the arrest itself. Someone booked in Dumas might post bond or get transferred. They may leave county custody while the report and court file live on. The sheriff's official page points to VINELink for custody status and alerts. That tool helps. Still, it is not a mugshot archive or a historical Sunray arrest list.
Where Sunray Busted Mugshots Appear
Go to the official sources first. They identify the agencies that actually hold the files. No official Sunray arrest log exists. There is no same-day bulletin or city photo roster either. The county sheriff pages offer no public booking search, 24-hour feed, or photo policy. That leaves a requester with three paths. Use the city contact route for the police record, the sheriff for the booking record, and court sources for whatever happens later in the case.
| Channel | Photo status | Official? | What it can confirm |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Sunray | Request and verify | Yes | Confirmed city contact route for the police report |
| Moore County Sheriff | Policy not published | Yes | County booking and jail-record route |
| VINELink | No photo display | Official-linked | Custody-status notifications when available |
| re:SearchTX | No | Yes | Later court case information when indexed |
| High Plains Observer | Occasional story images | No | County or public-safety release coverage |
| RecentlyBooked Moore County | May display one | No | Unofficial county lead, not a city filter |
Third-party sites fill part of the gap. Only part, though. RecentlyBooked, the Busted Newspaper Moore County path, and Mugshots.com can carry county-associated entries. None offers a reliable Sunray-specific filter. A missing entry does not mean no arrest happened. An entry that appears does not prove anyone is still in custody. Verify the city, the arresting agency, and the date with the office that created the record.
For the city side, check the City of Sunray contact information before sending a written police-record request.
That contact page supports the city-report request path. It does not, however, offer a booking search or any public police photo gallery.
Busted in Sunray: Custody Search
Start with a name and a date. Then work through the offices in the order the records were created. The city agency comes first for the arrest event itself. The county jail is the right source for a booking record. Use it if the person was booked there. The clerk or court system handles the later case status. This order keeps a news report from being mistaken for a current roster, or a third-party entry for the county's own record.
- Collect the full name, approximate date, incident location, and any known arresting agency.
- Use the City's confirmed contact route to ask how Sunray Police accepts a written Public Information Act request for an incident or arrest record.
- Contact the Moore County Sheriff's Office for the current custody or booking-record route. The official page has no public search form.
- Use VINELink only to check for a relevant custody event or notification, not for a historical booking-photo search.
- When a case is filed, search re:SearchTX where the case is indexed or contact the appropriate local clerk about the disposition.
The Moore County custody and booking route explains the countywide no-roster fallback, and it applies squarely to Sunray, which has no alternate city blotter. A city report can identify the event. The sheriff's booking information and the court outcome still need to be checked on their own.
Do not equate time stamps. The date a story runs is rarely the arrest time or booking time. Ask the agency or jail custodian for the record date and any releasable timestamp.
Note: The official sources offer no verified Sunray daily bulletin or Moore County public booking feed.
Sunray Police Arrest Record Requests
The city materials offer no records form, no booking-photo fee schedule, and no response-time promise. A written Public Information Act request is the dependable path. Send it through the confirmed city contact route. Describe the person or incident narrowly. State a date range. Ask for electronic copies where possible, and request that the office cite the legal basis for anything withheld or redacted.
City of Sunray / Police Contact Route
Sunray City Hall
415 Main St., Sunray, TX 79086
Mail: P.O. Box 250
Phone: 806-948-4111
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5
After hours: 806-922-4112
A directory listing has circulated 806-948-5252 as a Sunray police number. Treat it with caution. It does not appear on the city's own contact page. Call City Hall first to confirm before relying on it. The route below is the verified one.
County booking records sit in a different office entirely. Write to the Moore County Sheriff's Office at 700 S. Bliss Ave., Dumas, TX 79029, or call 806-935-4145 and ask for the records custodian. Keep the two requests separate. The city and the county often hold different paperwork for the same event.
Every request should carry the full name, a rough date, the Sunray connection, and the agency involved. That detail lets a custodian tell an incident report from a county booking entry and point you toward any follow-up office. Response times and fees are not fixed anywhere in public sources, so plan for neither.
Note: The city page confirms the City Hall route, though the separately published police number remains unverified.
Sunray City Hall Is the Official Route
Sunray's police facility has a paper trail worth knowing. The city's official page lists City Hall at 415 Main St., and the Texas DLR project record places a new Sunray Police Department facility at that same address. A shared address makes the city the sensible first stop for records, since the police department offers no standalone portal of its own.
One caution applies here. The DLR filing confirms a building, nothing more. It says nothing about phone lines, photo policies, or how bookings are published. Sunray police start the report path, while Moore County Jail holds the custody record after an intake.
View the Texas DLR Sunray Police facility record for the address confirmation itself.
The state project record backs up the facility's location. For anything current, though, the city contact page is the better route before filing a records request.
Sunray Busted Mugshots and Local News
Sunray has no verified blotter or dedicated mugshot section in local news. High Plains Observer and regional television outlets sometimes pick up a Sunray story when an agency releases something, but that coverage comes and goes. The Moore County News-Press covers Sunray alongside Dumas, Cactus, Etter, and the rest of the county, though it offers no steady crime or booking feed.
News stories run on their own schedule, not the jail's. A report might quote an agency statement, show a scene photo, or use a supplied image. None of that reflects a standard booking-photo practice, and an old story staying online says nothing about who is still in custody. An unofficial county index can surface a name too. It may not tell you the arrest actually happened in Sunray.
Mugshots in the News lays out the county-level media sources and their limits. Start with a story to learn the agency and date. Then go to the city, sheriff, or court for the actual record.
Note: No dedicated current Sunray blotter exists, so one dated story should never be read as a full arrest list.
Sunray City Report and County Booking
Sunray records split into three stages, and that split trips people up. A Sunray Police event may open a city report. County jail intake, when it happens, creates a second record on the sheriff's side. The court case comes third. This is why one record can surface while another stays hidden, and why an old entry alone never answers where a person stands now.
| Question | Best starting office | Record stage |
|---|---|---|
| What happened in Sunray? | City of Sunray / Sunray Police route | Incident or arrest report |
| Was there a county booking? | Moore County Sheriff / jail | Just booked or county custody |
| What was the case outcome? | Relevant clerk or indexed court source | Post-booking disposition |
That sequence keeps things honest. It leaves room for a release, a transfer, or a court change that no news page will ever show.