Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Bond County, Illinois, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bond County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Circuit Court of Bond County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Bond County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bond County
The Bond County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bond County. It reported 23 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Greenville, 7,126 residents: 29 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pocahontas, 669 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pierron, 445 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
- Sorento, 409 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Donnellson Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Bond County, so its arrests are not broken out for Bond County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bond County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Pocahontas: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Sorento: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Greenville: 29 for 2025, 44 for 2024, 54 for 2023, 24 for 2022, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Bond County Sheriff's Office: 23 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 21 for 2022 and 0 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Pierron: 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,356 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,356 in 2025 against 2,369 in 2024, down 0.5 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,308 arrests, against 1,555 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bond County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bond County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 21 people, down from about 22 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 22 beds, and it ran at 100 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Bond County Sheriff's Office at bondcountyil.gov/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Bond County, Illinois), phone (618) 664-2151, 200 West College Ave Greenville, IL 62246, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Illinois Department of Corrections lists its inmates at idoc.illinois.gov/offender/inmatesearch.html.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bond County
An arrest in Bond County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Circuit Court of Bond County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at circuitclerk.bondcountyil.gov); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at bondcountyil.gov/states-attorney, phone (618) 664-2262).
Illinois is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act, through the Illinois State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Bond County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension, and it may charge copying only after the first 50 pages.
- An arrest by the Bond County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (618) 664-2151.
- An arrest in Greenville, Pocahontas, Pierron or Sorento: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, (618) 664-2262, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court of Bond County, through the court records page at circuitclerk.bondcountyil.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Cities in Bond County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the eight cities in Bond County: Greenville, Pocahontas, Pierron and Sorento. Mulberry Grove, Keyesport, Smithboro and Old Ripley have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Circuit Court of Bond County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bond County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Greenville (7,126)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bond County each year?
Pocahontas reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,356 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bond County?
Ask the Bond County Sheriff's Office at (618) 664-2151; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bondcountyil.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Bond County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bond County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bond County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Bond County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bond County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension.
Is this the official Bond County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.