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 between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Linn County, Missouri, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Linn 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 Linn 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: Linn County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Linn County
The Linn County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Linn County. It reported 8 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Linn County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Brookfield, 4,110 residents: 108 arrests reported for 2025.
- Marceline, 2,130 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2024.
- Bucklin, 412 residents: 0 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Linn 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.
- Brookfield: 108 for 2025, 65 for 2024, 87 for 2022, 154 for 2021, 270 for 2020 and 472 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Linn County Sheriff's Office: 8 for 2025, 30 for 2024, 61 for 2023, 60 for 2022, 91 for 2021 and 44 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Marceline: 8 for 2024, 9 for 2022 and 19 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
- Bucklin: 0 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 116 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 116 in 2025 against 95 in 2024, up 22 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 54 arrests, against 47 in the same months of 2025.
Marceline reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Linn County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Linn 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.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Linn County Sheriff's Office at linncosomo.gov/inmate-roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Linn County Missouri Sheriff's Office), phone (660) 385-2062, 101 E. Washington Street Macon, MO 63552, 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 Linn County
Whether someone was arrested in Linn County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Linn 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; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at linncosomo.gov/prosecutors-office, phone (660) 895-5589).
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 Linn 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 Linn County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (660) 385-2062.
- An arrest in Brookfield, Marceline or Bucklin: 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) 895-5589, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at linncosomo.gov/record-requests (page title: Record Requests | Linn County Missouri Sheriff's Office).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Linn County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the eight cities in Linn County: Brookfield, Marceline and Bucklin. Meadville, Laclede, Linneus, Browning and Purdin 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 Linn County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Linn County each year?
Brookfield reported 108 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 116 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Linn County?
Look on the custody page of the Linn County Sheriff's Office at linncosomo.gov/inmate-roster, or call (660) 385-2062. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Linn County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Linn County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Linn 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 Linn County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Linn 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at linncosomo.gov/record-requests.
Is this the official Linn 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.