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.
Huron County, Ohio, has about 58,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Huron County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Huron 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: Huron County public records, Ohio arrest records, Ohio inmate search and Ohio criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Huron County
The Huron County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Huron County. It reported 1,152 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six 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:
- Norwalk, 17,172 residents: 255 arrests reported for 2025.
- Willard, 6,106 residents: 66 arrests reported for 2025.
- New London, 2,374 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Greenwich, 1,383 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Monroeville, 1,286 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2023.
- Wakeman, 1,011 residents: 1,152 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 Milan Police Department, the Plymouth Police Department and the Bellevue Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Huron County, so their arrests are not broken out for Huron County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Huron 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.
- New London: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Huron County Sheriff's Office: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Wakeman: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Greenwich: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Norwalk: 255 for 2025, 252 for 2024, 294 for 2023, 389 for 2022, 434 for 2021 and 309 for 2020.
- Willard: 66 for 2025, 77 for 2024, 68 for 2023, 81 for 2020 and 119 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Monroeville: 1 for 2023, 11 for 2022 and 3 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,929 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 4,929 in 2025 against 4,937 in 2024, down 0.2 percent.
Through August 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,623 arrests, against 3,108 in the same months of 2025.
Monroeville reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Huron County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Huron 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 90 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 134 beds, and it ran at 86 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 Huron County Sheriff's Office at huroncountysheriff.com/jailroster (page title: Jail Roster), 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 Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction lists its inmates at appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Huron County
Whether someone was arrested in Huron County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Huron County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Huron County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at huroncountycommonpleas.org/case.php, phone 419-668-5113); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at huroncounty-oh.gov/departments/prosecutor.php).
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 Huron 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 Huron County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Norwalk, Willard, New London, Greenwich, Monroeville or Wakeman: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Huron County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at huroncountycommonpleas.org/case.php, phone 419-668-5113.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at huroncounty-oh.gov (page title: Huron County, OH).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
Cities in Huron County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the seven cities in Huron County: Norwalk, Willard, New London, Greenwich, Monroeville and Wakeman. North Fairfield 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 Huron County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Huron County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Norwalk (17,172)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Huron County each year?
New London reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 4,929 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Huron County?
Look on the custody page of the Huron County Sheriff's Office at huroncountysheriff.com/jailroster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Huron County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Huron County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Huron County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Huron 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 Huron County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Huron 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 huroncounty-oh.gov.
Is this the official Huron 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.