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.
Kosciusko County, Indiana, has about 81,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office and seven 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Kosciusko 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: Kosciusko County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kosciusko County
The Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kosciusko County. It reported 545 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside seven 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:
- Warsaw, 16,111 residents: 1,331 arrests reported for 2025.
- Winona Lake, 5,107 residents: 27 arrests reported for 2025.
- Syracuse, 3,236 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2023.
- Milford, 1,684 residents: 81 arrests reported for 2025.
- North Webster, 999 residents: 63 arrests reported for 2024.
- Silver Lake, 873 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2024.
- Claypool, 395 residents: 77 arrests reported for 2022.
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 Nappanee Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Kosciusko County, so its arrests are not broken out for Kosciusko County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Kosciusko 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.
- Warsaw: 1,331 for 2025, 806 for 2024, 978 for 2023, 856 for 2022, 889 for 2021 and 836 for 2020.
- Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office: 545 for 2025, 435 for 2024, 454 for 2023, 551 for 2022, 482 for 2021 and 365 for 2020.
- Milford: 81 for 2025, 94 for 2024, 47 for 2023, 44 for 2022, 89 for 2021 and 77 for 2020.
- North Webster: 63 for 2024, 103 for 2023, 71 for 2022, 38 for 2021 and 40 for 2020.
- Winona Lake: 27 for 2025, 61 for 2024, 49 for 2023, 66 for 2022, 68 for 2021 and 80 for 2020.
- Silver Lake: 22 for 2024, 24 for 2022, 38 for 2021 and 54 for 2020; 2023 is missing months.
- Claypool: 77 for 2022, 63 for 2021 and 26 for 2020.
- Syracuse: 14 for 2023, 20 for 2022, 35 for 2021 and 21 for 2020.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,481 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 1,459 in 2024 against 1,631 in 2023, down 11 percent.
Syracuse and Claypool reported only part of 2024 (1 month and 3 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kosciusko County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kosciusko 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 260 people, down from about 290 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 305 beds, and it ran at 90 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 Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office at kosciuskosheriff.org/inmate-list (page title: Kosciusko County Inmate List, Indiana), phone (574) 267-5667, 221 W Main St, Warsaw, IN 46580, 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 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 Kosciusko County
Whether someone was arrested in Kosciusko County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Kosciusko 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/kosciusko-county); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at kosciusko.in.gov/department/index.php?structureid=19, phone (574) 372-2419).
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 Kosciusko 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 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 Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (574) 267-5667.
- An arrest in Warsaw, Winona Lake, Syracuse, Milford, North Webster, Silver Lake or another of the cities listed above: 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 Prosecuting Attorney, (574) 372-2419, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kosciusko Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/kosciusko-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kosciusko.in.gov (page title: Citizen Request Center | Error Processing Citizen Request Item | Kosciusko County, Indiana).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Kosciusko County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the 13 cities in Kosciusko County: Warsaw, Winona Lake, Syracuse, Milford, North Webster, Silver Lake and Claypool. Pierceton, Mentone, Etna Green, Leesburg, Sidney and Burket 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 Kosciusko Circuit and Superior Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Kosciusko County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Warsaw (16,111)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kosciusko County each year?
Warsaw reported 1,331 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Kosciusko County sent in full, the six with every month on file reported 1,481 between them.
Where are people arrested in Kosciusko County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kosciusko 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 Kosciusko County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kosciusko 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 kosciusko.in.gov.
Is this the official Kosciusko 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.