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.
Ashtabula County, Ohio, has about 97,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office, nine city agencies and one other agency. 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 Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas. 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: Ashtabula County public records, Ohio arrest records, Ohio inmate search and Ohio criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Ashtabula County
The Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Ashtabula County. It reported 444 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists nine cities in Ashtabula County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Ashtabula, 17,775 residents: 212 arrests reported for 2025.
- Conneaut, 12,357 residents: 186 arrests reported for 2024.
- Geneva, 5,871 residents: 45 arrests reported for 2025.
- Jefferson, 3,188 residents: 40 arrests reported for 2025.
- North Kingsville, 2,723 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Roaming Shores, 1,571 residents.
- Orwell, 1,511 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Andover, 948 residents.
- Geneva-on-the-Lake, 936 residents: 21 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 one more agency in Ashtabula County: Ashtabula County Metroparks Ranger Division (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Ashtabula 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.
- North Kingsville: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Orwell: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office: 444 for 2025, 407 for 2023, 372 for 2022, 436 for 2021, 410 for 2020 and 464 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Ashtabula: 212 for 2025 and 69 for 2024.
- Geneva: 45 for 2025 and 56 for 2024.
- Jefferson: 40 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 20 for 2023 and 25 for 2022.
- Geneva-on-the-Lake: 21 for 2025.
- Conneaut: 186 for 2024, 214 for 2023, 165 for 2022, 152 for 2021, 213 for 2020 and 147 for 2019.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,066 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,601 in 2025 against 2,475 in 2024, up 5.1 percent.
Through August 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,726 arrests, against 2,043 in the same months of 2025.
Roaming Shores, Conneaut and Andover reported only part of 2025 (8 months, 2 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Ashtabula County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Ashtabula 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.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 120 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 5 beds, and it ran at 2440 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 Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office at ashtabulacounty.gov/726/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff's Office | Ashtabula County, OH), phone (440) 576-3546, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Ashtabula County
For Ashtabula County the place to look is the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at ashtabulacounty.gov/147/Prosecutor, phone (440) 576-3662).
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 Ashtabula 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 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 Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (440) 576-3546.
- An arrest in Ashtabula, Conneaut, Geneva, Jefferson, North Kingsville, Roaming Shores 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 Ashtabula County Metroparks Ranger Division: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (440) 576-3662, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at ashtabulacounty.gov (page title: PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST | Ashtabula County, OH).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
Cities in Ashtabula County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the ten cities in Ashtabula County: Ashtabula, Conneaut, Geneva, Jefferson, North Kingsville, Roaming Shores, Orwell, Andover and Geneva-on-the-Lake. Rock Creek 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 Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Ashtabula 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 Ashtabula County each year?
North Kingsville reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,066 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Ashtabula County?
Ask the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office at (440) 576-3546; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at ashtabulacounty.gov/726/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Ashtabula County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Ashtabula County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Ashtabula 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 Ashtabula County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Ohio Public Records Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable period of time; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at ashtabulacounty.gov.
Is this the official Ashtabula 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.