WARREN — Trumbull County Justice Center Administrator Daniel Mason said Monday that 33 arrestees were brought into the jail since Friday morning.

According to the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office records, 15 of the arrests occurred Friday; four occurred Saturday and 14 were booked in county jail Sunday.

The bulk of the arrests made across Trumbull County were related to domestic violence, but the report did include offenses as serious as rape and kidnapping, both of which took place in Warren.

The mixed bag of offenses also includes several charges related to active warrants, theft and aggravated menacing.

The majority of the arrests, according to sheriff’s office records, came from Warren police, who made 13 arrests on mostly misdemeanor offenses. Liberty police made nine arrests.

“This is probably a little bit more how it used to be in years past,” Mason said. “We’ve always had a lot of arrests but we’ve been a little bit more unusual the last maybe five or six months with the fewer amount of arrests we’ve had.”

Typically, the jail administrator said arrest numbers begin to pick up around spring time as the weather begins switching from colder to warmer temperatures. Mason assured that the influx of inmates coming in over the weekend is nothing for Trumbull County residents to be alarmed by.

He further explained that in early spring, arrests increase but “level out” through the summer until the final remaining days of warmer season. Mason says arrests then start picking up again.

According to Mason, the weekend jump has not caused overcrowding of the county jail, which he says has a capacity of 314 with every cell full.

“We were fortunate that the jail population has been under capacity so we’re not running out of room,” Mason said. “In the past, we’ve basically had to stack people. We started putting them on the floor in hard shells almost like a kayak without a top to have people sleep on those.”

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the jail administrator said the capacity of the county jail has been down. He suggested that judges are finding “alternative means of sentencing. Fines, probation, halfway house or NEOCAP have all played a role in the lower numbers,” Mason said.

“When we have the issue of overcrowding then it becomes a safety issue because we’re putting more people into a confined area that might have tendencies toward violence,” he said. “So we start to worry about those types of things but also people with viruses and contagious diseases we might get.”

At the time of reporting, the county jail has 235 inmates.

The jail has three classifications for maximum, medium and minimum security that Mason said can cause issues depending on which one begins to fill up with inmates.

“We might have more inmates going into the maximum and medium but not the minimum so that means we may see an area of the jail that isn’t at capacity and others that are overcrowded,” Mason said.