SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Monmouth County, New Jersey, has about 648,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office, 48 city agencies and four campus, state or other 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 County Prosecutor files charges, a case in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County. 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: Monmouth County public records, New Jersey arrest records, New Jersey inmate search and New Jersey criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Monmouth County

The Monmouth County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Monmouth County. It reported 972 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists 37 cities in Monmouth County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Long Branch, 33,214 residents: 903 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Tinton Falls, 19,435 residents: 226 arrests reported for 2022.
  • Asbury Park, 15,473 residents: 1,321 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Eatontown, 13,582 residents: 207 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Red Bank, 12,830 residents: 466 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Freehold, 12,530 residents: 258 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Freehold (township), 12,530 residents: 438 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Matawan, 9,739 residents: 243 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Keansburg, 9,689 residents: 648 arrests reported for 2022.
  • West Long Branch, 8,604 residents: 162 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Rumson, 7,191 residents: 40 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Keyport, 7,182 residents: 207 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.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Monmouth County: Monmouth University and Brookdale Community College (campus police); Prosecutor in Monmouth County (other); the Monmouth County State Police (state police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Monmouth 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.

  • Neptune Township: 1,525 for 2025, 1,710 for 2024, 1,353 for 2023, 1,570 for 2022, 2,221 for 2020 and 2,428 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Asbury Park: 1,321 for 2025, 1,259 for 2023, 984 for 2022, 1,993 for 2020 and 3,748 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
  • Wall Township: 1,082 for 2025, 932 for 2024, 987 for 2023, 835 for 2022, 1,357 for 2020 and 3,011 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Monmouth County Sheriff's Office: 972 for 2025, 1,028 for 2024, 778 for 2023, 629 for 2022, 545 for 2020 and 1,797 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Long Branch: 903 for 2025, 774 for 2024, 869 for 2023, 795 for 2022, 1,139 for 2020 and 1,698 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Ocean Township: 668 for 2025, 623 for 2024, 413 for 2023, 445 for 2022, 833 for 2020 and 1,052 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Red Bank: 466 for 2025, 355 for 2024, 276 for 2023, 282 for 2022, 353 for 2020 and 625 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Freehold (township): 438 for 2025, 516 for 2022 and 668 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
  • Marlboro Township: 338 for 2025, 290 for 2024, 304 for 2023, 266 for 2022, 395 for 2020 and 580 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Hazlet Township: 330 for 2025, 394 for 2024, 313 for 2023, 514 for 2020 and 902 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Holmdel Township: 290 for 2025, 244 for 2024, 191 for 2023, 169 for 2022, 233 for 2020 and 516 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Freehold: 258 for 2025, 279 for 2024, 193 for 2023 and 412 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.

Together, the 38 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,853 arrests that year. The 35 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 8,986 in 2025 against 8,926 in 2024, up 0.7 percent.

Middletown Township, Tinton Falls, Rumson, Shrewsbury and five more reported only part of 2025 (11 months, 9 months, 11 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Monmouth County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Monmouth 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 2023 the jail held about 460 people, down from about 550 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,326 beds, and it ran at 35 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 Monmouth County Sheriff's Office at mcsonj.org/inmate-search-2 (page title: inmate search), phone (732) 577-8700, 2500 Kozloski Rd Freehold, NJ 07721, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 New Jersey Department of Corrections lists its inmates at www20.state.nj.us/DOC_Inmate/inmatefinder?i=I.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Monmouth County

An arrest in Monmouth County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; New Jersey Courts Public Access, the Judiciary's free online case search for civil and criminal cases, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Prosecutor, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at njoag.gov/news).

New Jersey does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Jersey State Police goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Monmouth 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 Open Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 business days, and it may charge copying at 5 cents a page for letter size.

  • An arrest by the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (732) 577-8700.
  • An arrest in Long Branch, Tinton Falls, Asbury Park, Eatontown, Red Bank, Freehold or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by Monmouth University, Brookdale Community College or Prosecutor in Monmouth County: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Prosecutor handles discovery for pending cases.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at monmouthcountynj.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the State Police.

Cities in Monmouth County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 37 of the 38 cities in Monmouth County: the twelve named above and Oceanport, Fair Haven, Little Silver, Manasquan, Belmar, Union Beach, Brielle, Spring Lake Heights, Neptune City, Atlantic Highlands, Highlands, Shrewsbury, Bradley Beach, Monmouth Beach, Spring Lake, Englishtown, Avon-by-the-Sea, Sea Girt, Allentown, Lake Como, Sea Bright, Deal, Interlaken, Allenhurst and Loch Arbour. Farmingdale and Roosevelt have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Aberdeen Township Police Department, the Middletown Township Police Department, the Neptune Township Police Department and eight more as city agencies in Monmouth County; Aberdeen Township, Middletown Township, Neptune Township and eight more are not among the cities above.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Monmouth County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Monmouth County each year?

Neptune Township reported 1,525 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 38 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 10,853 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Monmouth County?

Look on the custody page of the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office at mcsonj.org/inmate-search-2, or call (732) 577-8700. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Monmouth County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Monmouth County?

The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Jersey State Police is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Open Public Records Act.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Monmouth County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Open Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at monmouthcountynj.nextrequest.com.

Is this the official Monmouth 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.