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 2, 2026.
Le Sueur County, Minnesota, has about 29,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office and five 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Le Sueur County District 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: Le Sueur County public records, Minnesota arrest records, Minnesota inmate search and Minnesota criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Le Sueur County
The Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Le Sueur County. It reported 119 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Le Sueur, 4,230 residents: 41 arrests reported for 2025.
- Montgomery, 3,537 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2025.
- Le Center, 2,528 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2025.
- Waterville, 1,763 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cleveland, 769 residents: 4 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.
The New Prague Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Le Sueur County, so its arrests are not broken out for Le Sueur County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Le Sueur 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.
- Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office: 119 for 2025, 144 for 2024, 160 for 2023, 166 for 2022, 175 for 2021 and 172 for 2020.
- Le Sueur: 41 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 73 for 2023, 100 for 2022, 54 for 2021 and 57 for 2020.
- Montgomery: 15 for 2025, 34 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 15 for 2022, 33 for 2020 and 62 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Le Center: 15 for 2025, 22 for 2024, 33 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 4 for 2021 and 2 for 2020.
- Cleveland: 4 for 2025, 13 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 10 for 2022, 3 for 2021 and 3 for 2020.
- Waterville: 0 for 2025, 7 for 2024, 8 for 2023, 7 for 2022 and 9 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 194 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 194 in 2025 against 272 in 2024, down 29 percent.
Through May 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 80 arrests, against 88 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Le Sueur County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Le Sueur 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 2021 the jail held about 13 people, down from about 15 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 29 beds, and it ran at 52 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 Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office at lesueurcounty.gov/801/Jail-Roster (page title: Jail Roster | Le Sueur County, MN), 88 South Park Avenue Le Center, MN 56057, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Le Sueur County
Whether someone was arrested in Le Sueur County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; Minnesota Court Records Online, the Minnesota Judicial Branch's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lesueurcounty.gov/222/County-Attorney, phone 507-357-8512).
Minnesota is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions, through the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. 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 Le Sueur 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 Minnesota Government Data Practices Act the agency must answer promptly, within a reasonable time, and it may charge copying, and staff time for requests over 100 pages.
- An arrest by the Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Le Sueur, Montgomery, Le Center, Waterville or Cleveland: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 507-357-8512, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Cities in Le Sueur County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the nine cities in Le Sueur County: Le Sueur, Montgomery, Le Center, Waterville and Cleveland. Elysian, Kasota, Kilkenny and Heidelberg 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 Le Sueur County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Le Sueur County each year?
The Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office reported 119 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 194 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Le Sueur County?
Look on the custody page of the Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office at lesueurcounty.gov/801/Jail-Roster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Le Sueur County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Le Sueur County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Le Sueur County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable time.
Is this the official Le Sueur 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.