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.
Jasper County, Missouri, has about 126,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office, ten city agencies and two campus, state or other 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 Jasper 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: Jasper County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Jasper County
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Jasper County. It reported 271 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside ten 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:
- Joplin, 53,605 residents: 1,155 arrests reported for 2024.
- Carthage, 15,703 residents: 426 arrests reported for 2025.
- Webb City, 13,391 residents: 516 arrests reported for 2024.
- Carl Junction, 8,435 residents: 198 arrests reported for 2023.
- Oronogo, 3,159 residents: 30 arrests reported for 2025.
- Duquesne, 2,332 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Duenweg, 2,003 residents: 82 arrests reported for 2019.
- Carterville, 1,866 residents: 66 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sarcoxie, 1,420 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Jasper, 878 residents: 109 arrests reported for 2019.
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 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 Each Agency Reports in Jasper County
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.
- Carthage: 426 for 2025, 468 for 2024, 728 for 2022, 606 for 2021, 401 for 2020 and 988 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Jasper County Sheriff's Office: 271 for 2025, 367 for 2024, 335 for 2023, 286 for 2021 and 834 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
- Carterville: 66 for 2025, 84 for 2024, 105 for 2023, 130 for 2022, 118 for 2021 and 445 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Oronogo: 30 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 25 for 2023, 42 for 2022, 63 for 2020 and 116 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Duquesne: 3 for 2025, 10 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 28 for 2021 and 28 for 2020.
- Sarcoxie: 1 for 2025, 10 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 4 for 2021 and 36 for 2020.
- Joplin: 1,155 for 2024, 1,936 for 2023, 1,689 for 2022, 1,655 for 2021 and 2,358 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Webb City: 516 for 2024, 584 for 2023, 662 for 2022, 893 for 2021, 1,256 for 2020 and 495 for 2019.
- Carl Junction: 198 for 2023, 273 for 2022, 136 for 2021, 169 for 2020 and 198 for 2019.
- Jasper: 109 for 2019.
- Duenweg: 82 for 2019.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 797 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 797 in 2025 against 960 in 2024, down 17 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 206 arrests, against 247 in the same months of 2025.
Carl Junction, Webb City and Joplin reported only part of 2025 (9 months, 11 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Jasper County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Jasper 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 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 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 Jasper County
An arrest in Jasper County 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 Jasper 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 Jasper County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Joplin, Carthage, Webb City, Carl Junction, Oronogo, Duquesne or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Missouri Southern State University or Ozarks Drug Enforcement Team: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Jasper County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for ten of the 22 cities in Jasper County: Joplin, Carthage, Webb City, Carl Junction, Oronogo, Duquesne, Duenweg, Carterville, Sarcoxie and Jasper. Airport Drive, Alba, Purcell, Carytown, Neck City, Fidelity, Asbury, La Russell, Avilla, Brooklyn Heights, Reeds and Waco 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 Jasper County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Jasper County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Webb City (13,391)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Jasper County each year?
Carthage reported 426 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 797 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Jasper County?
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 Jasper County 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 Jasper 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 Jasper County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Jasper 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 Jasper 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.