Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 September 25, 2026.
Wadsworth, Ohio, in Medina County, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city 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 Medina County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Wadsworth public records, Medina County arrest records, Ohio arrest records and Ohio inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Wadsworth
The FBI lists Wadsworth with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Wadsworth Police Department. It reported 436 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 Medina County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 202 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Medina County: the Medina County Park District and Medina County Drug Task Force (other).
How Many Arrests Wadsworth 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.
- Wadsworth: 436 for 2025, 460 for 2024, 352 for 2023, 369 for 2022, 424 for 2021 and 500 for 2020.
Wadsworth's 436 arrests in 2025 were down 5.2 percent from 460 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Wadsworth reported 331 arrests, against 325 in the same months of 2025.
Across Medina County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,912 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wadsworth Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Wadsworth 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 210 people, down from about 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 256 beds, and it ran at 83 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 Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, whose inmate locator is at appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Wadsworth
For Wadsworth the place to look is the case index of the Medina County Court of Common Pleas, kept by the Clerk of Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at medinamunicipalcourt.org (page title: Medina Municipal Court), phone 330-241-4385, belongs to a lower court, not to the Medina County Court of Common Pleas.
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 Wadsworth
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Wadsworth police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at wadsworthcity.com/368/Records (page title: Records | Wadsworth, OH), phone 330-335-2747, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Medina County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Medina County Court of Common Pleas it is kept by the Clerk of Courts. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at medinamunicipalcourt.org, phone 330-241-4385, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
The Medina County guide covers every agency in the county: Medina County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wadsworth each year?
Wadsworth reported 436 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Wadsworth booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Medina County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wadsworth?
The court files of criminal cases in the Medina 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 Wadsworth?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wadsworth police for its own arrests, the Medina 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 Wadsworth 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.