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 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Warrensburg, Missouri, in Johnson County, has about 20,000 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 Johnson 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: Warrensburg public records, Johnson County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Warrensburg
The FBI lists Warrensburg with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Warrensburg Police Department. It reported 826 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 Johnson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 279 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Johnson County: the University of Central Missouri (campus police).
How Many Arrests Warrensburg 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.
- Warrensburg: 826 for 2025, 866 for 2024, 713 for 2023, 821 for 2022, 1,064 for 2021 and 658 for 2020.
Warrensburg's 826 arrests in 2025 were down 4.6 percent from 866 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Warrensburg reported 474 arrests, against 391 in the same months of 2025.
Across Johnson County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,186 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Warrensburg Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Warrensburg 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 2021 the jail held about 140 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 198 beds, and it ran at 91 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Missouri Department of Corrections lists its inmates at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Warrensburg
An arrest in Warrensburg 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 jocomo.gov/219/Prosecuting-Attorney).
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 Warrensburg
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Warrensburg police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at warrensburg-mo.gov/374/Administrative-Bureau (page title: Administrative Bureau | Warrensburg, MO), phone 660-747-2265, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jocomo.gov/406/Request-a-Record (page title: Request a Record | Johnson County, MO).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Johnson County guide covers every agency in the county: Johnson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Warrensburg each year?
Warrensburg reported 826 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Warrensburg booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Warrensburg?
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 Warrensburg?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Warrensburg police for its own arrests, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jocomo.gov/406/Request-a-Record.
Is this the official Warrensburg 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.