Toledo Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Toledo

The FBI lists Toledo with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Toledo Police Department. It reported 6,048 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

Outside the city, the Lucas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 478 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lucas County: the University of Toledo (campus police); Toledo Fire Department Fire Investigation Unit, the Toledo Metropolitan Park District and the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority (other).

How Many Arrests Toledo 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.

• Toledo: 6,048 for 2025, 6,114 for 2024, 6,752 for 2023, 6,169 for 2022, 5,949 for 2021 and 5,992 for 2020.

Toledo's 6,048 arrests in 2025 were down 1.1 percent from 6,114 in 2024.

Through May 2026, Toledo reported 2,271 arrests, against 2,486 in the same months of 2025.

Across Lucas County, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,683 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Toledo Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Toledo 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 2023 the jail held about 350 people, down from about 500 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 352 beds, and it ran at 141 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Lucas County Sheriff's Office at co.lucas.oh.us/2992/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Lucas County, OH), phone 419-213-4000, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 2026.

A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, whose inmate locator is at appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Toledo

Whether someone was arrested in Toledo, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.lucas.oh.us/118/Case-Information, phone 419-213-6901); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.lucas.oh.us/m/directory/department?did=11, phone (419) 213-4700).

Ohio does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation 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 Toledo

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 Ohio Public Records Act the agency must answer promptly, within a reasonable period of time, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.

• An arrest by the Toledo police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at toledo.oh.gov/connect/public-records-request (page title: City of Toledo | Public Records Request), phone 419-245-1275, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Lucas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 419-213-4000.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (419) 213-4700, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at co.lucas.oh.us/118/Case-Information, phone 419-213-6901.
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.

The Lucas County guide covers every agency in the county: Lucas County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Toledo each year?

Toledo reported 6,048 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Toledo?

Ask the Lucas County Sheriff's Office at 419-213-4000; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.lucas.oh.us/2992/Sheriff.

Where are people arrested in Toledo booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Toledo?

The court files of criminal cases in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Ohio Public Records Act.

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

From the agency that made the arrest: the Toledo police for its own arrests, the Lucas County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Ohio Public Records Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable period of time.

Is this the official Toledo website?

No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.