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 2025. 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 25, 2026.
Muncie, Indiana, in Delaware County, has about 65,000 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 Delaware 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: Muncie public records, Delaware County arrest records, Indiana arrest records and Indiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Muncie
The FBI lists Muncie with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Muncie Police Department. It reported 980 arrests for 2025. 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 Delaware County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 394 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Delaware County: Ball State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Muncie 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.
- Muncie: 980 for 2025, 1,049 for 2024, 973 for 2023, 800 for 2022 and 652 for 2021.
Muncie's 980 arrests in 2025 were down 6.6 percent from 1,049 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Muncie reported 655 arrests, against 585 in the same months of 2025.
Across Delaware County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,374 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Muncie Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Muncie 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 420 people, up from about 300 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 500 beds, and it ran at 71 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Indiana Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Muncie
For Muncie the place to look is the case index of the Delaware 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/delaware-county).
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 Muncie
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Muncie police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at muncie.in.gov/department/division.php?structureid=101 (page title: Records Division | The City of Muncie, Indiana), phone (765) 747-4891, 300 N High St Muncie, IN 47305, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Delaware Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/delaware-county.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Delaware County guide covers every agency in the county: Delaware County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Muncie each year?
Muncie reported 980 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Muncie booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Muncie?
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 Muncie?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Muncie police for its own arrests, the Delaware 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 Muncie 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.