Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Gardiner, Maine, in Kennebec County, has about 6,200 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Kennebec County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Gardiner public records, Kennebec County arrest records, Maine arrest records and Maine inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Gardiner
The FBI lists Gardiner with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Gardiner Police Department. It reported 210 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 518 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Kennebec County: the Bureau of Capitol Police (state agency).
How Many Arrests Gardiner 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.
- Gardiner: 210 for 2025, 154 for 2024, 159 for 2023, 178 for 2022, 129 for 2021 and 240 for 2020.
Gardiner's 210 arrests in 2025 were up 36 percent from 154 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Gardiner reported 56 arrests, against 64 in the same months of 2025.
Across Kennebec County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,995 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gardiner Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gardiner 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 2023 the jail held about 150 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 167 beds, and it ran at 89 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 Kennebec County Sheriff's Office at kennebec.gov/sheriff/corrections/inmates-current (page title: Current Inmates | Kennebec County Sheriff's Office), phone (207) 623-2270, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Maine Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at apps1.web.maine.gov/online/correctionssearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Gardiner
An arrest in Gardiner can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Kennebec County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.maine.gov/courts/superior/kennebec-sc.html, phone (207) 213-2800).
Maine is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction records are public and can be requested on anyone by name, through the Maine State Police State Bureau of Identification. 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 Gardiner
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 Maine Freedom of Access Act the agency must answer within a reasonable time, after acknowledging the request within 5 working days, and it may charge staff time after the first two hours, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Gardiner police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at gardinermaine.gov/files/assets/public/v/3/public-safety/documents/p... (page title: Gardinermaine), phone 147 410.5591, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (207) 623-2270.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kennebec County Superior Court, through the court records page at courts.maine.gov, phone (207) 213-2800.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Kennebec County guide covers every agency in the county: Kennebec County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gardiner each year?
Gardiner reported 210 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gardiner?
Look on the custody page of the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office at kennebec.gov, or call (207) 623-2270. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Gardiner booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gardiner?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Maine State Police State Bureau of Identification: conviction records are public and can be requested on anyone by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Maine Freedom of Access Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Gardiner?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gardiner police for its own arrests, the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Maine Freedom of Access Act the answer is due within a reasonable time, after acknowledging the request within 5 working days.
Is this the official Gardiner website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.