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.
Montgomery County, Indiana, has about 39,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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: Montgomery County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Montgomery County
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Montgomery County. It reported 423 arrests for 2025.
One city in Montgomery County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Crawfordsville, 16,594 residents: 558 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Montgomery 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.
- Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: 423 for 2025, 524 for 2024, 801 for 2023, 680 for 2022 and 238 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Crawfordsville: 558 for 2023, 128 for 2022 and 467 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 1,359 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 801 in 2023 against 680 in 2022, up 18 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Montgomery County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Montgomery County 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 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 Montgomery County
An arrest in Montgomery County 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Crawfordsville: 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, (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.
Cities in Montgomery County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the 11 cities in Montgomery County: Crawfordsville. Ladoga, Waynetown, Linden, Darlington, New Market, Waveland, New Richmond, New Ross, Wingate and Alamo 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 Montgomery Circuit and Superior Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Montgomery County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Crawfordsville (16,594)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Montgomery County each year?
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office reported 423 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Montgomery County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 1,359 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Montgomery County?
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 Montgomery County 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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.