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 October 2, 2026.
Webb City, Missouri, in Jasper 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 Jasper 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: Webb City public records, Jasper County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Webb City
The FBI lists Webb City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Webb City Police Department. It reported 516 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 Jasper County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 271 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Jasper County: Missouri Southern State University (campus police); Ozarks Drug Enforcement Team (other).
How Many Arrests Webb City 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.
- Webb City: 516 for 2024, 584 for 2023, 662 for 2022, 893 for 2021, 1,256 for 2020 and 495 for 2019.
Webb City's 516 arrests in 2024 were down 12 percent from 584 in 2023.
Across Jasper County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 797 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Webb City Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Webb City 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 210 people, down from about 270 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 253 beds, and it ran at 105 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 Jasper County Sheriff's Office at jaspercountysheriff.org/helpie_faq/inmate-roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Jasper County Missouri Sheriff’s Office), 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.
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 Webb City
An arrest in Webb City can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; Case.net, the Missouri courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Webb City
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 Webb City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at webbcitymo.org/open-records (page title: Open Records | City of Webb City), phone 417-673-4651, 200 S. Main Street Webb City, MO 64870, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Jasper County guide covers every agency in the county: Jasper County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Webb City each year?
Webb City reported 516 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Webb City?
Look on the custody page of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office at jaspercountysheriff.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Webb City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Webb City?
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 Webb City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Webb City police for its own arrests, the Jasper 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 Webb City 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.