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.
Pulaski County, Missouri, has about 54,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office and five 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 Pulaski 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: Pulaski County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pulaski County
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pulaski County. It reported 62 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside five 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:
- St. Robert, 5,511 residents: 151 arrests reported for 2023.
- Waynesville, 5,493 residents: 102 arrests reported for 2025.
- Richland, 1,729 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Dixon, 1,215 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- Crocker, 915 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Pulaski 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.
- Waynesville: 102 for 2025, 98 for 2024, 109 for 2023, 121 for 2022, 187 for 2021 and 479 for 2020.
- Richland: 33 for 2025, 38 for 2024, 32 for 2023, 13 for 2022, 29 for 2021 and 38 for 2020.
- Dixon: 11 for 2025, 30 for 2022, 28 for 2021, 39 for 2020 and 33 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- St. Robert: 151 for 2023, 193 for 2021, 297 for 2020 and 493 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: 62 for 2023 and 754 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Crocker: 4 for 2024, 9 for 2023, 5 for 2022, 23 for 2021, 65 for 2020 and 115 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 146 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 135 in 2025 against 136 in 2024, down 0.7 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 80 arrests, against 84 in the same months of 2025.
St. Robert and Pulaski County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (10 months and 3 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pulaski County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pulaski 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 50 people, down from about 70 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 68 beds, and it ran at 103 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 Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at pcsheriff2.com/current-inmates (page title: Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office MO), 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 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 Pulaski County
An arrest in Pulaski County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Pulaski County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at pulaskicountymopa.com/case-information-and-links.html); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pulaskicountymopa.com/index.html, phone 573-774-4770).
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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in St. Robert, Waynesville, Richland, Dixon or Crocker: 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, 573-774-4770, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pulaski County Circuit Court, through the court records page at pulaskicountymopa.com.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pulaski County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the five cities in Pulaski County: St. Robert, Waynesville, Richland, Dixon and Crocker.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Pulaski County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pulaski County each year?
Waynesville reported 102 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 146 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pulaski County?
Look on the custody page of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at pcsheriff2.com/current-inmates. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Pulaski County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pulaski 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 Pulaski 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.