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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Sagadahoc County, Maine, has about 38,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office and four 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Sagadahoc County Superior Court. 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: Sagadahoc County public records, Maine arrest records, Maine inmate search and Maine criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sagadahoc County
The Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sagadahoc County. It reported 181 arrests for 2025.
One city in Sagadahoc County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Bath, 8,817 residents: 149 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 Sagadahoc 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.
- Topsham: 191 for 2025, 189 for 2024, 220 for 2023, 195 for 2022, 154 for 2021 and 129 for 2020.
- Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office: 181 for 2025, 169 for 2024, 215 for 2023, 158 for 2022, 231 for 2021 and 159 for 2020.
- Bath: 149 for 2025, 149 for 2024, 145 for 2023, 168 for 2022, 148 for 2021 and 129 for 2020.
- Richmond: 57 for 2021 and 160 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Phippsburg: 2 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 6 for 2022, 3 for 2021, 1 for 2020 and 5 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 521 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 521 in 2025 against 507 in 2024, up 2.8 percent.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 280 arrests, against 281 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sagadahoc County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sagadahoc 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 84 people, up from about 76 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 110 beds, and it ran at 69 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 Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office at sagsheriff.com (page title: Sagadahoc County Jail Roster Lookup, ME, Inmate Search), 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 Maine Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at apps1.web.maine.gov/online/correctionssearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Sagadahoc County
Whether someone was arrested in Sagadahoc County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Sagadahoc 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/sagadahoc-sc.html, phone (207) 442-0200); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sagadahoccountyme.gov/departments/district_attorneys_office/index.php, phone (207) 443-8204).
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 Sagadahoc 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 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 Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Bath: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (207) 443-8204, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sagadahoc County Superior Court, through the court records page at courts.maine.gov, phone (207) 442-0200.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sagadahoc County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Bath, the one city in Sagadahoc County. The FBI's list also carries the Richmond Police Department, the Phippsburg Police Department and the Topsham Police Department as city agencies in Sagadahoc County; Richmond, Phippsburg and Topsham are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Sagadahoc County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sagadahoc County each year?
Topsham reported 191 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 521 between them.
Where are people arrested in Sagadahoc County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sagadahoc County?
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 Sagadahoc County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Sagadahoc 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.