Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2023. 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.
Crawfordsville, Indiana, in Montgomery County, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Montgomery Circuit and Superior Courts. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Crawfordsville public records, Montgomery County arrest records, Indiana arrest records and Indiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Crawfordsville
The FBI lists Crawfordsville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Crawfordsville Police Department. It reported 558 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 423 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Crawfordsville Reports
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.
- Crawfordsville: 558 for 2023, 128 for 2022 and 467 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Crawfordsville's 558 arrests in 2023 were up 336 percent from 128 in 2022.
Across Montgomery County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 1,359 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Crawfordsville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Crawfordsville is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 150 people, down from about 200 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 224 beds, and it ran at 91 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at montgomerycosheriffin.gov/jailtracker (page title: Find an Inmate | Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Indiana Department of Correction lists its inmates at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Crawfordsville
An arrest in Crawfordsville can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Montgomery Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at in.gov/courts/local/montgomery-county); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at montgomerycounty.in.gov/department/?fDD=11-0, phone (765) 364-6470).
Statewide, mycase.IN.gov is the Indiana courts' free statewide case search.
Indiana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online, through the Indiana 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 Crawfordsville
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 Indiana Access to Public Records Act the agency must answer within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email, and it may charge a copy fee set by the agency, within statutory limits.
- An arrest by the Crawfordsville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at crawfordsville.in.gov/197/Records-Services (page title: Records & Services | Crawfordsville, IN), 311 N Green Street Crawfordsville, IN 47933, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (765) 364-6470, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Montgomery Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/montgomery-county.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Montgomery County guide covers every agency in the county: Montgomery County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Crawfordsville each year?
Crawfordsville reported 558 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Crawfordsville?
Look on the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at montgomerycosheriffin.gov/jailtracker. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Crawfordsville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Crawfordsville?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Indiana State Police: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Crawfordsville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Crawfordsville police for its own arrests, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act the answer is due within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email.
Is this the official Crawfordsville website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.