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 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Crawford County, Missouri, has about 23,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Crawford 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 Crawford 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: Crawford County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Crawford County
The Crawford County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Crawford County. It reported 66 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Crawford County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Cuba, 3,230 residents: 170 arrests reported for 2023.
- Bourbon, 1,533 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Steelville, 1,445 residents: 14 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 Sullivan Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Crawford County, so its arrests are not broken out for Crawford County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Crawford 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.
- Crawford County Sheriff's Office: 66 for 2025, 14 for 2024, 19 for 2023, 11 for 2022, 22 for 2021 and 197 for 2020.
- Steelville: 14 for 2025, 8 for 2024, 28 for 2023, 43 for 2022, 34 for 2020 and 46 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Bourbon: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 6 for 2022, 12 for 2021 and 138 for 2020.
- Cuba: 170 for 2023, 126 for 2022, 119 for 2021, 208 for 2020 and 459 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 81 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 81 in 2025 against 22 in 2024.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 95 arrests, against 26 in the same months of 2025.
Cuba reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Crawford County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Crawford County 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 2023 the jail held about 74 people, up from about 61 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 77 beds, and it ran at 95 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 Crawford County
Whether someone was arrested in Crawford 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 crawfordcountymo.net/prosecuting-attorney, phone (573) 775-5010).
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 Crawford County
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 Crawford County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Cuba, Bourbon or Steelville: 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, (573) 775-5010, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Crawford County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Crawford County: Cuba, Bourbon and Steelville. Leasburg, West Sullivan and St. Cloud 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 Crawford County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Crawford County each year?
The Crawford County Sheriff's Office reported 66 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 81 between them.
Where are people arrested in Crawford County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Crawford County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Crawford 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 Crawford County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Crawford 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 Crawford 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.