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 on September 23, 2026.
Miami County, Indiana, has about 36,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Miami 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 Miami 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: Miami County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Miami County
The Miami County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Miami County. It reported 50 arrests for 2025.
One city in Miami County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Peru, 11,003 residents: 306 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 Miami County
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.
- Peru: 306 for 2025, 369 for 2024, 277 for 2023 and 348 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
- Miami County Sheriff's Office: 50 for 2025 and 70 for 2020; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 356 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 306 in 2025 against 369 in 2024, down 17 percent.
Through March 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 71 arrests, against 73 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Miami County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Miami 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 88 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 246 beds, and it ran at 38 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 Miami County
For Miami County the place to look is the case index of the Miami 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/miami-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 Miami 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 Miami County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Peru: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Miami Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/miami-county.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Miami County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the six cities in Miami County: Peru. Converse, Bunker Hill, Denver, Amboy and Macy 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 Miami Circuit and Superior Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Miami County each year?
Peru reported 306 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 356 between them.
Where are people arrested in Miami County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Miami County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Miami 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 Miami County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Miami 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.
Is this the official Miami 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.