Benton County Busted Mugshots is a private reference service, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, arrange a release, post bond, or obtain an official booking record. Direct those requests to the government office that holds the record.
Official Record Contacts
The Benton County Sheriff's Office and the Benton County Detention Facility use the same address but serve different purposes. The Sheriff's general line is for non-emergency law-enforcement contact. The detention number is the appropriate path for a current jail or custody question. Records requests should identify the desired document and go to the records custodian during the stated request hours.
Benton County Sheriff's Office
1620 E. Main Street
Warsaw, MO 65355
General non-emergency: 660-438-5252
Use the official contact page for agency information and non-emergency routing.
Detention and Records
1620 E. Main Street
Warsaw, MO 65355
Detention: 660-438-6135
Records custodian: Det. Hope Hearn
Requests: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
BCSO says requests may take up to three days.
Benton County Circuit Clerk
For court-date and public-case navigation, use the Circuit Clerk's official page.
Circuit Clerk: 660-438-7712
For an emergency, call 911.
When requesting a booking sheet, arrest report, release record, or booking photograph, provide the person's full name, an approximate date, the record type, and the booking number if it is known. The BCSO Patrol page identifies Det. Hope Hearn as the Custodian of Records. No local booking-photo price schedule or county records form was located, so ask for a cost estimate. Missouri Sunshine Law request procedures provide the general framework.
Choose the source that matches the question:
- For a current county booking, an official roster card, or the recent-release window, begin with the Benton County booking and roster path.
- For an official booking record or photograph not visible online, use the BCSO records channel and describe the requested record precisely.
- For an incident report held by a municipal agency, contact that agency or its city custodian because it may not be held with the county booking file.
- For a public case date, filing, or disposition, use Missouri Case.net and the Circuit Clerk.
- For a person in Missouri state custody or supervision, use the Missouri DOC Offender Search.
- For federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator; it is separate from the county detention system.
- For immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator, which is also separate from BCSO booking records.