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 2024. 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 26, 2026.
Marshfield, Missouri, in Webster County, has about 7,900 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Webster County Circuit 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: Marshfield public records, Webster County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Marshfield
The FBI lists Marshfield with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Marshfield Police Department. It reported 278 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Webster County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 106 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Marshfield Reports
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.
- Marshfield: 278 for 2024, 263 for 2023, 273 for 2022, 205 for 2021 and 147 for 2020.
Marshfield's 278 arrests in 2024 were up 5.7 percent from 263 in 2023.
Across Webster County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 81 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Marshfield Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Marshfield 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 2019 the jail held about 60 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 32 beds, and it ran at 188 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Missouri Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Marshfield
Whether someone was arrested in Marshfield, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Case.net, the Missouri courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at webstercountymo.gov/prosecuting-attorneys-office, phone 417-859-0214).
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. 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 Marshfield
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 Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Marshfield police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at marshfieldmo.gov/164/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Marshfield, MO), phone 417-468-4402, 325 S Crittenden Street Marshfield, MO 65706, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Webster County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 417-859-0214, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Webster County guide covers every agency in the county: Webster County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Marshfield each year?
Marshfield reported 278 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Marshfield booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Webster County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Marshfield?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Marshfield?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Marshfield police for its own arrests, the Webster County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Marshfield 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.