Arrested in Weber County. What happens now.
Someone was booked into the Weber County Correctional Facility tonight, and you are trying to find out where they are, what it costs to get them out, and what has to happen next. Here is the sequence, the real numbers, and the deadline nobody at the jail will mention.
Weber County Correctional Facility.
Almost every adult arrested anywhere in Weber County is booked here, whatever agency made the arrest. The Sheriff’s Office reports averaging more than 14,000 bookings a year, and classifies every person admitted within 72 hours.
The Sheriff’s Office publishes an online booking roster. Treat it as a convenience, not as proof: entries lag the actual arrest, sometimes by hours, and the Sheriff’s own page cautions that the roster is not an official record. If you need to know tonight whether someone is in custody, call 801-778-6700 and ask.
What actually happens after the arrest.
The sequence rarely varies. Knowing it tells you where the person is right now and what is about to matter.
Transport and intake
The arresting officer transports to Depot Drive and hands off. Property is inventoried, identity confirmed, and the booking record created. For a DUI, the evidentiary breath or blood sample has usually already been taken by this point — at the scene, at the station, or at a hospital.
Classification
Every person admitted is classified within 72 hours. For a first-offense misdemeanor DUI this is routine and the person is often released well before classification matters.
The release decision
A magistrate or judge enters a pretrial status order: release on own recognizance, release with conditions, or detention. Under Utah Code § 77-20-205 the court must decide individually — and may not decide based only on the seriousness of the charge, or only on a risk-assessment tool’s score.
Release paperwork
The person leaves with documents. Among them, after a DUI, is the paperwork that starts the 10-day Driver License Division clock. People routinely put it in a glove box and lose their license by default. Read the 10-day DLD rule tonight, not next week.
What release actually costs.
Utah replaced its old uniform bail schedule. What exists now is a statutory list of default financial conditions in Utah Code § 77-20-205.5 — defaults a judge starts from, weighs against the person’s ability to pay, and often departs from.
| Offense level | Default financial condition | Typical Weber County charge |
|---|---|---|
| Class C misdemeanor | $350 | Minor traffic offenses |
| Class B misdemeanor | $700 | First-offense DUI § 41-6a-502 |
| Class A misdemeanor | $2,000 | Second DUI within 10 years |
| Third-degree felony | $5,000 | Third DUI within 10 years; DUI with injury |
| Second-degree felony | $10,000 | Automobile homicide |
| First-degree felony | $20,000 | Aggravated offenses |
Two things people get wrong. First, the $700 default for a class B misdemeanor is a coincidence away from the $700 mandatory minimum fine for a first DUI conviction — they are unrelated numbers at opposite ends of the case. Second, a jail official’s initial figure carries no weight with the judge: Utah law directs the court to give it no deference and to set a single amount per case after considering ability to pay.
The clock that started at the arrest.
Everything above is about tonight. This is about the next nine days.
Ten calendar days, from the arrest date
Not from release, not from the arraignment. Weekends and holidays count. Miss it and the Driver License Division suspends the license administratively — with no hearing, and with no review of whether the stop was lawful.
The hearing is separate from the criminal case
Two proceedings, two systems. The DLD hearing decides the license; the court decides the charge. Winning one does not decide the other — but the hearing puts the officer on the record early, which frequently helps the defense.
We file it the day we are retained
The request costs nothing to make and loses nothing if it later proves unnecessary. It is the first thing we do on a DUI file, before anything else.