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 4, 2026.
Noble County, Indiana, has about 48,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Noble County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Noble 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: Noble County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Noble County
The Noble County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Noble County. It reported 151 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Noble County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Kendallville, 10,326 residents: 340 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ligonier, 4,650 residents: 190 arrests reported for 2025.
- Albion, 2,254 residents: 10 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 Noble 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.
- Kendallville: 340 for 2025, 277 for 2024, 256 for 2023, 237 for 2022 and 229 for 2021.
- Ligonier: 190 for 2025.
- Noble County Sheriff's Office: 151 for 2025, 188 for 2024, 208 for 2023, 210 for 2022, 180 for 2021 and 132 for 2020.
- Albion: 10 for 2025, 19 for 2024, 25 for 2023, 17 for 2022 and 17 for 2021.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 691 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 501 in 2025 against 484 in 2024, up 3.5 percent.
Through June 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 394 arrests, against 300 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Noble County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Noble 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 200 people, up from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 264 beds, and it ran at 56 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 Noble County Sheriff's Office at noblecountysheriff.org/noble-county-jail-information (page title: Noble County Jail Information | Noble County Indiana Sheriff's Department), phone (260) 636-6404, Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Noble County
An arrest in Noble County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Noble 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/counties/noble/courts); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at nobleprosecutor.com).
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 Noble 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 Noble County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (260) 636-6404.
- An arrest in Kendallville, Ligonier or Albion: 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 handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Noble Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/counties/noble/courts.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Noble County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the seven cities in Noble County: Kendallville, Ligonier and Albion. Avilla, Rome City, Wolcottville and Cromwell 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 Noble Circuit and Superior Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Noble County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Kendallville (10,326)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Noble County each year?
Kendallville reported 340 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 691 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Noble County?
Ask the Noble County Sheriff's Office at (260) 636-6404; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at noblecountysheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Noble County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Noble County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Noble 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 Noble County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Noble 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 Noble 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.