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 25, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Moberly, Missouri, in Randolph County, has about 13,000 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 Randolph 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: Moberly public records, Randolph County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Moberly
The FBI lists Moberly with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Moberly Police Department. It reported 206 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 Randolph County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 72 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Moberly 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.
- Moberly: 206 for 2024, 195 for 2023, 189 for 2022, 318 for 2021 and 552 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Moberly's 206 arrests in 2024 were up 5.6 percent from 195 in 2023.
Across Randolph County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 278 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Moberly Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Moberly 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 63 people, up from about 54 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 120 beds, and it ran at 45 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 Randolph County Sheriff's Office at randolphcountyso.org/inmates.html (page title: Redirecting…), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
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 Moberly
An arrest in Moberly can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 randolphcounty-mo.com/departments/randolph-county-prosecuting-attorney, phone 844-277-6555).
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 Moberly
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 Moberly police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at mcdonaldcountygov.com/missouri/police-department/moberly-police-dep... (page title: Moberly Police Department Arrests, Jail Roster), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
- An arrest by the Randolph County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 844-277-6555, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Randolph County guide covers every agency in the county: Randolph County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Moberly each year?
Moberly reported 206 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Moberly?
Ask the Randolph County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at randolphcountyso.org/inmates.html.
Where are people arrested in Moberly booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Randolph County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Moberly?
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 Moberly?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Moberly police for its own arrests, the Randolph 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 Moberly 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.