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 on September 23, 2026.
Webster County, Missouri, has about 42,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Webster 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 Webster 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: Webster County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Webster County
The Webster County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Webster County. It reported 106 arrests for 2024, 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:
- Marshfield, 7,935 residents: 278 arrests reported for 2024.
- Rogersville, 5,344 residents: 46 arrests reported for 2025.
- Seymour, 1,934 residents: 34 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fordland, 809 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Niangua, 414 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2022.
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 Webster 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.
- Rogersville: 46 for 2025, 43 for 2024, 36 for 2023, 61 for 2022, 58 for 2021 and 72 for 2020.
- Seymour: 34 for 2025, 49 for 2024, 66 for 2023, 94 for 2022, 63 for 2021 and 145 for 2020.
- Fordland: 1 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 11 for 2023, 10 for 2020 and 66 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Marshfield: 278 for 2024, 263 for 2023, 273 for 2022, 205 for 2021 and 147 for 2020.
- Webster County Sheriff's Office: 106 for 2024, 123 for 2023, 120 for 2022, 145 for 2021 and 1,221 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Niangua: 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 81 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 81 in 2025 against 93 in 2024, down 13 percent.
Through May 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 34 arrests, against 36 in the same months of 2025.
Webster County Sheriff's Office and Marshfield reported only part of 2025 (10 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Webster County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Webster 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 60 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 32 beds, and it ran at 188 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 Webster County
Whether someone was arrested in Webster County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 webstercountymo.gov/prosecuting-attorneys-office, phone 417-859-0214).
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 Webster 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 Webster County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Marshfield, Rogersville, Seymour, Fordland or Niangua: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 417-859-0214, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Webster County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the six cities in Webster County: Marshfield, Rogersville, Seymour, Fordland and Niangua. Diggins has 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 Webster County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Webster County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Marshfield (7,935)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Webster County each year?
Rogersville reported 46 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 81 between them.
Where are people arrested in Webster County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Webster County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Webster 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 Webster County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Webster 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 Webster 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.