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 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Chariton County, Missouri, has about 7,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Chariton County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Chariton County Circuit 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: Chariton County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Chariton County
The Chariton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Chariton County. It reported 20 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Salisbury, 1,569 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2021.
- Brunswick, 796 residents.
- Keytesville, 447 residents: 1,177 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 Marceline Police Department and the Glasgow Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Chariton County, so their arrests are not broken out for Chariton County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Chariton County
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.
- Keytesville: 1,177 for 2025, 1,175 for 2024, 1,176 for 2023, 1,170 for 2022, 1,145 for 2021 and 1,167 for 2020.
- Chariton County Sheriff's Office: 20 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 36 for 2023, 51 for 2022, 12 for 2021 and 90 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Salisbury: 3 for 2021, 19 for 2020 and 20 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,196 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 1,196 in 2024 against 1,212 in 2023, down 1.3 percent.
Salisbury reported only part of 2024 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Chariton County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Chariton 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 2019 the jail held about 23 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 32 beds, and it ran at 72 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 Chariton County Sheriff's Office at charitonco.com/sheriff (page title: Chariton County Sheriff), phone 660-288-3277, 307 S Cherry St Keytesville, MO 65261, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Chariton County
Whether someone was arrested in Chariton County, 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 charitonco.com/prosecuting-attorney, phone 660-288-3275).
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 Chariton County
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 Chariton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 660-288-3277.
- An arrest in Salisbury, Brunswick or Keytesville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 660-288-3275, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Chariton County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the eight cities in Chariton County: Salisbury, Brunswick and Keytesville. Mendon, Sumner, Rothville, Triplett and Dalton 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 Chariton County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Chariton County each year?
Keytesville reported 1,177 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Chariton County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 1,196 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Chariton County?
Ask the Chariton County Sheriff's Office at 660-288-3277; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at charitonco.com/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Chariton County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Chariton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Chariton County?
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 Chariton County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Chariton County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Chariton 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.