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 2, 2026.
Wright County, Missouri, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Wright 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 Wright 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: Wright County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Wright County
The Wright County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Wright County. It reported 18 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:
- Mountain Grove, 4,690 residents: 277 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mansfield, 1,298 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hartville, 626 residents: 0 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 Wright 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.
- Mountain Grove: 277 for 2025, 357 for 2024, 454 for 2022 and 383 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
- Wright County Sheriff's Office: 18 for 2025, 9 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 8 for 2022, 38 for 2021 and 977 for 2020.
- Mansfield: 8 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 15 for 2022, 50 for 2021 and 67 for 2020.
- Hartville: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 2 for 2022, 5 for 2021, 20 for 2020 and 15 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 303 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 303 in 2025 against 368 in 2024, down 18 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 222 arrests, against 188 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wright County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Wright 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 2019 the jail held about 39 people. Its rated capacity in 2018, the last year with a capacity figure, was 38 beds, and it ran at 142 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 Wright County Sheriff's Office at wrightcountysheriff.net (page title: Wright County Jail Roster Lookup, MO, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Wright County
An arrest in Wright County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Wright 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; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at wrightcountyprosecutor.com/about-john-tyrrell, phone (417) 741-6166).
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 Wright 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 Wright County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Mountain Grove, Mansfield or Hartville: 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, (417) 741-6166, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Wright County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Wright County: Mountain Grove, Mansfield and Hartville. Norwood 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 Wright County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wright County each year?
Mountain Grove reported 277 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 303 between them.
Where are people arrested in Wright County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wright County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wright 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 Wright County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wright 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 Wright 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.