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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Gentry County, Missouri, has about 6,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gentry County Sheriff's Office. 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 Gentry 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: Gentry County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gentry County
The Gentry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gentry County. It reported 19 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Gentry County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Gentry County Sheriff's Office: 19 for 2025, 48 for 2020 and 19 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Through August 2026, Gentry County Sheriff's Office reported 5 arrests, against 17 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gentry County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gentry 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.
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 Gentry County
For Gentry County the place to look is the case index of the Gentry County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gentrycounty.net/index.php/courts-judicial).
Statewide, Case.net is the Missouri courts' free statewide case search.
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 Gentry 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 Gentry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gentry County Circuit Court, through the court records page at gentrycounty.net/index.php/courts-judicial.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Gentry County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Gentry County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Gentry County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gentry County each year?
The Gentry County Sheriff's Office reported 19 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Gentry County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gentry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gentry 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 Gentry County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gentry 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 Gentry 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.