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.
Benton County, Indiana, has about 8,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Benton County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Benton Circuit and Superior Courts. 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: Benton County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Benton County
The Benton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Benton County. It reported 1,152 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Benton County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Fowler, 2,385 residents.
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 The Benton County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Benton County Sheriff's Office: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
Through September 2026, Benton County Sheriff's Office reported 666 arrests, against 864 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Benton County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Benton 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 2024 the jail held about 21 people, down from about 27 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 43 beds, and it ran at 63 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 Benton County Sheriff's Office at bentoncounty.in.gov/sheriffs-department-and-jail (page title: Sheriff's Department and Jail | Benton County), phone 765-884-0080, 105 S Lincoln Avenue Fowler, IN 47944, Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Benton County
Whether someone was arrested in Benton County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Benton Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at bentoncounty.in.gov/department/county-clerk, phone 765-884-0930); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at bentoncounty.in.gov/department/prosecuting-attorney, phone 765-884-1399).
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 Benton County
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 Benton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 765-884-0080.
- An arrest in Fowler: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 765-884-1399, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Benton Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at bentoncounty.in.gov/department/county-clerk, phone 765-884-0930.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bentoncountywa.nextrequest.com (page title: Benton County Public Records RequestsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Benton County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the six cities in Benton County: Fowler. Oxford, Otterbein, Boswell, Earl Park and Ambia 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 Benton Circuit and Superior Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Benton County each year?
The Benton County Sheriff's Office reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Benton County?
Ask the Benton County Sheriff's Office at 765-884-0080; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bentoncounty.in.gov.
Where are people arrested in Benton County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Benton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Benton County?
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 Benton County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Benton County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bentoncountywa.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Benton 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.