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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Worth County, Missouri, has about 1,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Worth County Sheriff's Office. 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 Worth 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: Worth County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Worth County
The Worth County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Worth County. It reported 9 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Worth County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Worth County Sheriff's Office: 9 for 2025, 18 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 17 for 2022, 6 for 2020 and 32 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Worth County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Worth 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.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Worth County Sheriff's Office at worthcountysheriff.com/inmate-database-lookup (page title: Inmate Database Lookup | Worth County Sheriff), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Worth County
An arrest in Worth County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Worth 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.
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 Worth 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 Worth County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Worth County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Worth County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Worth County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Worth County each year?
The Worth County Sheriff's Office reported 9 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Worth County?
Look on the custody page of the Worth County Sheriff's Office at worthcountysheriff.com/inmate-database-lookup. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Worth County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Worth County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Worth 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 Worth County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Worth 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 Worth 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.