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 October 2, 2026.
Stark County, Illinois, has about 5,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Stark County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Stark 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: Stark County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Stark County
The Stark County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Stark County. It reported 40 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Wyoming, 1,269 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Toulon, 1,165 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bradford, 662 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Stark County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Wyoming: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Bradford: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Stark County Sheriff's Office: 40 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Toulon: 20 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 4 for 2023 and 3 for 2022.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,364 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,364 in 2025 against 2,329 in 2024, up 1.5 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,304 arrests, against 1,549 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Stark County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Stark 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 2019 the jail held about 4 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 1 beds, and it ran at 400 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Stark County Sheriff's Office at vintoncountysheriff.com/stark-county (page title: Stark County Sheriff, OH, Jail Inmate Search, Recent Arrests), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Illinois Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at idoc.illinois.gov/offender/inmatesearch.html.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Stark County
Whether someone was arrested in Stark County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Stark County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Circuit Court of Stark County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at starkco.illinois.gov/departments/circuit-clerk, phone (309) 286-5941); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at starkco.illinois.gov/departments/states-attorney, phone (309) 286-3221).
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 Stark 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 Stark County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Wyoming, Toulon or Bradford: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, (309) 286-3221, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court of Stark County, through the court records page at starkco.illinois.gov, phone (309) 286-5941.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at starkco.illinois.gov (page title: Illinois).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Cities in Stark County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Stark County: Wyoming, Toulon and Bradford. La Fayette has 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 Stark County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Stark County each year?
Wyoming reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,364 between them.
Where are people arrested in Stark County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Stark County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Stark 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 Stark County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Stark 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at starkco.illinois.gov.
Is this the official Stark 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.