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 between September 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026.

About this guide

Montgomery County, Ohio, has about 537,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, 23 city agencies and one campus 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 Montgomery 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: Montgomery County public records, Ohio arrest records, Ohio inmate search and Ohio criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Montgomery County

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Montgomery County. It reported 1,361 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists 17 cities in Montgomery 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:

  • Dayton, 136,346 residents: 6,325 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Kettering, 57,028 residents: 1,225 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Huber Heights, 43,590 residents: 843 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Centerville, 26,311 residents: 346 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Riverside, 24,472 residents: 162 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Trotwood, 23,073 residents: 990 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Miamisburg, 20,253 residents: 407 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Vandalia, 15,013 residents: 357 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Clayton, 13,296 residents: 155 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Englewood, 13,282 residents: 502 arrests reported for 2025.
  • West Carrollton, 12,911 residents: 294 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Union, 7,076 residents: 128 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 Carlisle Police Department and the Springboro Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Montgomery County, so their arrests are not broken out for Montgomery County here.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Montgomery County: Sinclair Community College (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Montgomery 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.

  • Dayton: 6,325 for 2025, 6,314 for 2024, 7,103 for 2023, 6,787 for 2022, 6,079 for 2021 and 5,782 for 2020.
  • Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: 1,361 for 2025, 1,346 for 2024, 1,454 for 2023, 1,476 for 2022, 1,171 for 2021 and 1,015 for 2020.
  • Kettering: 1,225 for 2025, 1,212 for 2024, 1,339 for 2023, 1,444 for 2022, 1,690 for 2020 and 3,302 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Trotwood: 990 for 2025, 977 for 2024, 969 for 2023, 1,189 for 2022, 947 for 2021 and 892 for 2020.
  • Huber Heights: 843 for 2025, 911 for 2024, 849 for 2023, 730 for 2022, 646 for 2021 and 746 for 2020.
  • Englewood: 502 for 2025, 503 for 2024, 450 for 2023, 346 for 2022, 403 for 2021 and 400 for 2020.
  • Butler Township: 481 for 2025, 659 for 2024, 551 for 2023, 579 for 2022, 652 for 2021 and 694 for 2020.
  • Moraine: 463 for 2025, 527 for 2024, 654 for 2023, 520 for 2022, 517 for 2021 and 496 for 2020.
  • Miamisburg: 407 for 2025, 389 for 2024, 490 for 2023, 402 for 2022, 462 for 2021 and 512 for 2020.
  • Vandalia: 357 for 2025, 342 for 2024, 341 for 2023, 373 for 2022, 384 for 2021 and 340 for 2020.
  • Centerville: 346 for 2025, 289 for 2024, 327 for 2023, 397 for 2022, 282 for 2021 and 324 for 2020.
  • West Carrollton: 294 for 2025, 335 for 2024, 438 for 2023, 586 for 2022, 591 for 2021 and 546 for 2020.

Together, the 17 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 14,182 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 14,182 in 2025 against 14,338 in 2024, down 1.1 percent.

Through July 2026, the 15 agencies with every month so far on file reported 7,599 arrests, against 7,799 in the same months of 2025.

New Lebanon, Germantown (township), Jackson Township, Perry Township and two more reported only part of 2025 (11 months, 2 months, 10 months and 5 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Montgomery County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Montgomery 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 580 people, down from about 800 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 443 beds, and it ran at 131 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com/Home/CurrentInmates (page title: Current Inmates | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 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 Montgomery County

An arrest in Montgomery County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountyauditors.org/clerk-of-courts-search-montgomery-ohio, phone (937) 225-4326); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mcohio.org/740/Prosecutor, phone 937-225-5623).

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 Montgomery County

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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Dayton, Kettering, Huber Heights, Centerville, Riverside, Trotwood 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 Sinclair Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 937-225-5623, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at montgomerycountyauditors.org, phone (937) 225-4326.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mcohiosheriff.org (page title: Records Requests).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.

Cities in Montgomery County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 17 of the 18 cities in Montgomery County: the twelve named above and Moraine, Brookville, Germantown (township), Germantown and New Lebanon. Farmersville and Phillipsburg have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Butler Township Police Department, Jackson Township Police Department, Montgomery County, Perry Township Police Department, Montgomery County and three more as city agencies in Montgomery County; Butler Township, Jackson Township, Perry Township and three 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 Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County each year?

Dayton reported 6,325 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 17 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 14,182 between them.

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

Look on the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Montgomery County booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Montgomery County?

The court files of criminal cases in the Montgomery 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 Montgomery County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Montgomery 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 mcohiosheriff.org.

Is this the official Montgomery 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.