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 4, 2026.
Pike County, Missouri, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pike 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 Pike 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: Pike County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pike County
The Pike County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pike County. It reported 46 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Bowling Green, 4,380 residents: 73 arrests reported for 2024.
- Louisiana, 3,244 residents: 77 arrests reported for 2025.
- Frankford, 346 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
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 Pike 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.
- Louisiana: 77 for 2025, 62 for 2022, 99 for 2021, 161 for 2020 and 184 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Pike County Sheriff's Office: 46 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 27 for 2022, 43 for 2021 and 81 for 2020.
- Bowling Green: 73 for 2024, 37 for 2023, 155 for 2020 and 158 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Frankford: 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 123 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 46 in 2025 against 46 in 2024.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 54 arrests, against 75 in the same months of 2025.
Bowling Green reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pike County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pike 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.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 44 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 41 beds, and it ran at 107 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 Pike County Sheriff's Office at pikecso.com/inmateSearch (page title: Pike County Sheriff’s Office (AR)), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Pike County
Whether someone was arrested in Pike County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Pike County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Pike County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at pikecountymo.net/circuit-clerk, phone (573) 324-5582); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pikecountymo.net/prosecuting-attorney, phone (573) 324-2201).
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 Pike 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 Pike County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Bowling Green, Louisiana or Frankford: 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) 324-2201, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pike County Circuit Court, through the court records page at pikecountymo.net/circuit-clerk, phone (573) 324-5582.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pike County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the eight cities in Pike County: Bowling Green, Louisiana and Frankford. Eolia, Clarksville, Curryville, Paynesville and Annada 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 Pike County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pike County each year?
Louisiana reported 77 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 123 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pike County?
Look on the custody page of the Pike County Sheriff's Office at pikecso.com/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Pike County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pike County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pike 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 Pike County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pike 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 Pike 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.