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Montgomery is small. The 2020 Census counted 792 residents. Its police setup differs sharply from Washington's or Odon's. According to the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial agency history, the old Montgomery Town Marshal's duties moved to the Daviess County Sheriff's Department. The current town directory agrees, listing no police or Marshal entry at all. An older list naming a Montgomery Police Department says nothing about today.

So call it plainly: the Daviess County Sheriff's Office holds current jurisdiction, and the Town Marshal's Office is history. That makes DCSO the right desk for arrest records and county custody questions. The town office handles ordinary municipal business, not police files.

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There is no Montgomery-only arrest log or booking photo feed. DCSO posts no online inmate roster either. No recent-booking page exists. So the practical route splits three ways: contact the sheriff directly, check VINE, or file a focused records request.

Custody checks only cover the present. Someone released may not show up in current-custody channels, yet the booking file may still exist and stay requestable. A person moved into the state prison system after sentencing belongs in the IDOC locator instead. Federal and immigration custody work through entirely separate systems. A blank county result never proves the arrest never happened.

Find Montgomery Busted Records

Start with DCSO. Searching for a Montgomery municipal police office just wastes time, since no current evidence supports one.

1. Gather the person’s full name, approximate event date, location, and any report, booking, or case number.
2. Call DCSO at 812-254-1060 for law-enforcement routing. For present county custody, call the Detention Center at 812-254-5974 or use VINE.
3. Request the incident record from DCSO if sheriff personnel handled it. If jail reception occurred, explicitly request the booking/intake record and booking/identification photograph.
4. Search MyCase for filed charges, hearings, orders, and disposition. Search IDOC only after transfer to state custody.

The Daviess County jail and booking resource lays out why current custody, released status, county records, and state-prison custody each call for a different check. The county offers no official public search fields and no web-photo policy, so plan on direct contact.

Montgomery Sheriff Record Request

The official route for Montgomery law-enforcement and jail records is DCSO's Administrative Record Request. Go in person or send it by mail. The published fee is $5, paid by cashier's check from a local bank or money order made out to the Daviess County Sheriff's Department. Ask whether extra items change the amount due.

Word the request precisely. Include the full name, the approximate incident or booking date, the place, and any known identifiers. Need all three pieces? Ask separately for the incident report, the booking sheet, and the booking photograph. DCSO guarantees no response time, roster schema, or automatic photo release, and Indiana law allows review and redaction of records.

Need the town office instead? It sits at 370 N. Main Street, P.O. Box 57, Montgomery, IN 47558, phone 812-486-3298. Use it for town administration, never as a stand-in police department.

Why Montgomery Skips City Police

This jurisdiction shift defines Montgomery's records puzzle. The old Town Marshal role appears in historical agency material, but the duties now sit with DCSO. Inventing a local police contact would misdirect a records request and muddy who holds the arrest and booking files.

The official Montgomery town directory shows the current municipal contact structure:

The directory reflects the town's present contacts only. It does not erase the fact that Montgomery once had a Marshal, whose duties transferred to DCSO per the agency history. For any current record or custody question, the sheriff remains the supported route.

Montgomery Busted News Context

WAMW's county arrest reports sometimes name Montgomery residents. The station posts frequent text summaries with a generic Arrest Update graphic rather than personal booking photographs. The Washington Times Herald covers regional incidents too, though its police archive runs less regularly. Neither is a Montgomery arrest log.

A few facts deserve separation. Residence, arrest location, and arresting agency are not the same thing, and a resident label proves nothing about where an event occurred. Check the named source, the date, and the location. Then verify through DCSO and MyCase. The wider Daviess County Arrest News coverage explains that chain.

Unofficial Montgomery Busted Listings

Daviess County pages exist on Recently Booked, Busted Newspaper, Mugshots.com, and Arrests.org, but none stands out as a dependable Montgomery-only feed. Recently Booked offers a rolling 30-day view. Busted Newspaper carries recent county posts. Mugshots.com holds an older archive, Arrests.org shows no current county results, and Mugshots.zone has no Daviess section at all.

Treat all of these as leads, nothing more. Entries can go missing, repeat, lag behind a release, or sit stale after a case ends. A hometown filter does not equal jurisdiction, either. Confirm the booking with DCSO, then turn to MyCase for the outcome.

Montgomery Custody Status Changes

Location drives the lookup. Fresh arrivals at the Security Center sit under DCSO's county-jail operation. Released people are different. They may drop off a current check even though the booking record still exists on request. An Indiana sentence moves the file to the IDOC offender locator. Federal detainees need the federal system instead.

DCSO posts nothing about update timing, record retention, or photo policies. A precise written request has to do the heavy lifting. Ask for the booking file, the identification photograph, and any shareable release or transfer data. Indiana's local retention schedule keeps adult inmate custody files for ten years after incarceration ends. Mugshots aren't listed separately, though. Confirm the photo's classification with the sheriff before counting on it.

Incident record

The law-enforcement account of an event or arrest.

Booking record

The county jail’s reception and custody file.

Current custody

Where the person is held now, if still detained.

Disposition

The court’s final action on the filed case.

A Montgomery address alone tells you nothing. The town office handles town business, not sheriff records. It cannot help just because someone lives within town limits. A countywide news item or commercial listing doesn't prove the event happened inside Montgomery either. Line up the location, the arresting agency, the booking date, and the court case before drawing conclusions. That comparison keeps the jurisdiction question honest and stops an old listing from masquerading as live custody.

Montgomery Busted Record Fields

When you write to DCSO, be specific. A focused request can cover the booking identifier, reception date, booking agency, charges as received, hold authority, bond amount, release or transfer details, and the intake photograph. No fixed field schema is published. Confirm what each named record actually holds. Then check the response against MyCase, since the jail's charge label rarely matches the final court count.