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.
Nodaway County, Missouri, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Nodaway County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one campus agency. 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 Nodaway 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: Nodaway County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Nodaway County
The Nodaway County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Nodaway County. It reported 124 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Nodaway County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Maryville, 10,193 residents: 444 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Nodaway County: Northwest Missouri State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Nodaway 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.
- Maryville: 444 for 2025, 448 for 2024, 506 for 2023, 466 for 2022, 548 for 2021 and 390 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Nodaway County Sheriff's Office: 124 for 2025, 136 for 2024, 142 for 2023, 162 for 2022, 170 for 2021 and 204 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 568 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 568 in 2025 against 584 in 2024, down 2.7 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Nodaway County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Nodaway 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 2020 the jail held about 8 people, down from about 24 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 44 beds, and it ran at 55 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 Nodaway County Sheriff's Office at nodawaycountysheriff.com/current-inmates (page title: Current Inmates | Stay Informed | Check Inmate Status | Nodaway County 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 Nodaway County
Whether someone was arrested in Nodaway County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Nodaway 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 nodawaycountymo.us/county-offices/prosecuting-attorney, phone 660-582-8285).
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 Nodaway 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 Nodaway County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Maryville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Northwest Missouri State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 660-582-8285, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Nodaway County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the 15 cities in Nodaway County: Maryville. Burlington Junction, Hopkins, Ravenwood, Skidmore, Barnard, Conception Junction, Clearmont, Pickering, Graham, Parnell, Elmo, Guilford and two more 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 Nodaway County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Nodaway County each year?
Maryville reported 444 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 568 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Nodaway County?
Look on the custody page of the Nodaway County Sheriff's Office at nodawaycountysheriff.com/current-inmates. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Nodaway County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Nodaway County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Nodaway 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 Nodaway County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Nodaway 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 Nodaway 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.