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.
Stone County, Missouri, has about 33,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Stone County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Stone 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: Stone County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Stone County
The Stone County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Stone County. It reported 148 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists six cities in Stone County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Kimberling City, 2,371 residents: 95 arrests reported for 2020.
- Crane, 1,526 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- Reeds Spring, 1,224 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Indian Point, 583 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Branson West, 495 residents: 130 arrests reported for 2025.
- Galena, 476 residents: 8 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Stone 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.
- Branson West: 130 for 2025, 77 for 2024, 105 for 2023, 92 for 2022, 117 for 2020 and 314 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Crane: 11 for 2025 and 8 for 2024.
- Galena: 8 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 8 for 2021 and 1 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
- Indian Point: 0 for 2025, 3 for 2024 and 1 for 2023.
- Reeds Spring: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Stone County Sheriff's Office: 148 for 2024, 197 for 2023, 189 for 2022, 205 for 2021, 371 for 2020 and 340 for 2019.
- Kimberling City: 95 for 2020 and 221 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 149 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 149 in 2025 against 89 in 2024, up 67 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 42 arrests, against 69 in the same months of 2025.
Stone County Sheriff's Office and Kimberling City reported only part of 2025 (11 months and 1 month) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Stone County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Stone 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 2021 the jail held about 49 people, down from about 61 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 100 beds, and it ran at 61 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Stone County
For Stone County the place to look is 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 Stone 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 Stone County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Kimberling City, Crane, Reeds Spring, Indian Point, Branson West or Galena: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Stone County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the ten cities in Stone County: Kimberling City, Crane, Reeds Spring, Indian Point, Branson West and Galena. Blue Eye, McCord Bend, Hurley and Coney Island 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 Stone County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Stone County each year?
Branson West reported 130 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 149 between them.
Where are people arrested in Stone County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Stone County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Stone 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 Stone County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Stone 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 Stone 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.