Sam & Dean's Arrests

Dean's arrests

Season 1, Episode 1 "Pilot" [[1]] Impersonating a U.S. Marshal and using fake credit cards. The police also find John's journal and accuse Dean and John of having something to do with the missing men. Dean escaped thanks to a spare paperclip used to pick the handcuffs and a fake 911 call placed by Sam.

Season 1, Episode 7 "Hookman" [[2]] He and Sam are caught ghost hunting. Dean convinces the cops to drop the charges because he was just hazing Sam "the dumb ass pledge."

Season 2, Episode 7 "The Usual Suspects" [[3]] Arrested on suspicion of murder and then held because of the murders in Saint Louis. The lead detective decides Dean will make a great fall guy to take the blame for the murders he committed. He intends to kill Dean while transporting him to Saint Louis. Dean escapes when Sam arrives with the other detective on the case. The other detective shoots the dirty cop. Sam & Dean decide to go out for pea soup.

Season 2, Episode 19 "Folsom Prison Blues" [[4]] While "robbing" a museum, Sam & Dean "accidentally" trip a motion detector. They have intentionally gotten caught so they will be sent to Green River County Detention Center. An old friend of John's is a guard there and is convinced the place is haunted.

Season 3, Episode 12 "Jus in Bello" [[5]] Sam & Dean are chasing Bela who has stolen the Colt. She sends in a tip to the FBI in order to get them off her case. The jail is soon surrounded by demons determined to kill them both. With the help of Henriksen, the deputies, and the secretary they manage to fight and exorcise all the demons. Henriksen decides to let Sam & Dean go by reporting that they've died in a helicopter explosion.

Season 5, Episode 15 "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" [[6]] Sam & Dean track a zombie who has killed someone in Bobby's hometown. They find the recently not-so-dead man living peacefully with his family but decide to shoot him anyway. Sheriff Mills arrives before Dean can shoot and arrests them for attacking a tax paying citizen of her town, even though she knows he's supposed to be dead. Bobby arrives at the jail and talks Sheriff Mills into letting them go.

Season 6, Episode 9 "Clap Your Hands if You Believe in Fairies" [[7]] Several people in a town have been abducted by what seems to be the fairy folk. Dean is being followed and attacks someone he assumes is a malevolent fairy. It turns out the man is a little person (who also happens to be the District Attorney) and Dean is arrested for committing a hate crime. He is released after the District Attorney decides to drop the charges.

Season 7, Episode 6 "Slash Fiction" [[8]] Sam & Dean are copied by Leviathans. Their Leviathan clones then go on a widely televised killing spree. The real Sam & Dean are captured while looking for the clones. While they are in jail, the clones attack trying to kill them. The Sheriff sees Leviathan!Dean eat one of his deputies while he knows the real Dean is still locked up. He agrees to help Sam & Dean and they manage to kill the Leviathan clones. The Sheriff agrees to let Sam & Dean go while using the dead Leviathan clones to back up a claim that the real Sam & Dean have been killed (again.)

Season 7, Episode 12 "Time After Time" [[9]] Dean unexpectedly finds himself in 1944 after unknowingly jumping a God of time. He runs out into the street while brandishing a gun and is arrested for suspicious behavior. He is released when Eliot Ness interrogates him and it is discovered that they are both Hunters.