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.
Wood County, Ohio, has about 133,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Wood County Sheriff's Office, 15 city agencies and two campus, state or other 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 Wood 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: Wood County public records, Ohio arrest records, Ohio inmate search and Ohio criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Wood County
The Wood County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Wood County. It reported 76 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists 14 cities in Wood 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:
- Bowling Green, 30,463 residents: 988 arrests reported for 2024.
- Perrysburg, 25,313 residents: 109 arrests reported for 2025.
- Perrysburg (township), 25,313 residents: 210 arrests reported for 2025.
- Rossford, 6,353 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Northwood, 5,222 residents: 197 arrests reported for 2024.
- North Baltimore, 3,411 residents: 38 arrests reported for 2024.
- Walbridge, 3,058 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pemberville, 1,336 residents.
- Haskins, 1,256 residents.
- Luckey, 1,015 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bradner, 982 residents.
- Wayne, 856 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 Fostoria Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Wood County, so its arrests are not broken out for Wood County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Wood County: Bowling Green State University (campus police); the Wood County Park District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Wood 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.
- Luckey: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Wayne: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Rossford: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Bowling Green: 988 for 2024, 1,119 for 2023, 1,074 for 2022, 1,032 for 2021, 681 for 2020 and 982 for 2019.
- Northwood: 197 for 2024, 150 for 2023, 154 for 2022, 169 for 2021, 130 for 2020 and 130 for 2019.
- Perrysburg (township): 210 for 2025, 162 for 2024, 162 for 2023, 144 for 2022, 117 for 2021 and 80 for 2020.
- Perrysburg: 109 for 2025, 141 for 2024, 131 for 2023, 144 for 2022, 199 for 2021 and 118 for 2020.
- Wood County Sheriff's Office: 76 for 2025, 79 for 2024, 86 for 2023, 103 for 2022, 96 for 2021 and 121 for 2020.
- North Baltimore: 38 for 2024, 51 for 2023, 23 for 2021, 31 for 2020 and 39 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Walbridge: 4 for 2025, 14 for 2022 and 21 for 2021; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 5,061 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 5,061 in 2024 against 5,137 in 2023, down 1.5 percent.
Pemberville and Walbridge reported only part of 2024 (1 month and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wood County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Wood 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 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 164 beds, and it ran at 99 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Wood County
Whether someone was arrested in Wood County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Wood County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at prosecutor.woodcountyohio.gov/case-information); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at prosecutor.woodcountyohio.gov/staff, phone 419-354-9250).
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 Wood 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 Wood County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Bowling Green, Perrysburg, Perrysburg (township), Rossford, Northwood, North Baltimore 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 Bowling Green State University or the Wood County Park District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 419-354-9250, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Wood County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at prosecutor.woodcountyohio.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clerkofcourt.co.wood.oh.us (page title: Wood County Clerk of Courts, Wood County Ohio Public Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
Cities in Wood County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 14 of the 25 cities in Wood County: the twelve named above and Bloomdale and Risingsun. Weston, Millbury, Grand Rapids, Cygnet, Jerry City, Portage, Tontogany, Hoytville, Custar, Milton Center, West Millgrove and Bairdstown have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Lake Township Police Department as a city agency in Wood County; Lake Township is 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 Wood County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Wood County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Perrysburg (25,313)
- Rossford (6,353)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wood County each year?
Luckey reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Wood County sent in full, the nine with every month on file reported 5,061 between them.
Where are people arrested in Wood County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wood County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wood County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Wood 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 Wood County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wood 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 clerkofcourt.co.wood.oh.us.
Is this the official Wood 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.