Someone arrested in Wellington or anywhere else in Sumner County is booked into the Sumner County Detention Center at 610 E Hillside. We are a Wichita bail bond company and we drive down to Wellington to post bonds in person. Call (316) 833-8506 any hour and a licensed bondsman will answer.
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A bail bond is a service fee for putting up bail money to a court in order to allow you to get out of jail until your court date. The court will set a bail amount for you, if it is more than you can afford and you don’t want yourself or your loved one to remain in jail until that court date, then you need to talk to a bail bonds company who will put the money up on your behalf.
Co-signing for a bail bond means you are taking legal responsibility for the full amount of the bail bond. So if the court said the bail bond was $10,000, and the bail bondsman is asking you to pay $1,000 to them as their service fee, and the person skips out and runs from the appointed court date, the bondsman will come after you to get the money they put up to the court, which means you owe the full $10,000.
If they were arrested in Wellington, they are in Sumner County custody at the Sumner County Detention Center, 610 E Hillside, Wellington, KS 67152. The jail line is 620-326-8943 and the Sheriff’s Office is 620-326-8941. Felony and county cases go to Sumner County District Court at 501 N Washington Ave; city tickets go to Wellington Municipal Court at 200 N C St. Call us at (316) 833-8506 and we will tell you which one applies and what the bond is.
If someone you care about has just been arrested in Wellington, you are probably trying to answer three questions at once. Where are they. How much is the bond. How fast can they come home. This page answers all three for Sumner County specifically, so you are not guessing.
Our office is in Wichita at 700 N Market St, Ste 1, and it is staffed around the clock. We do not keep an office in Wellington. What we do is drive down and write the bond in person, the same way we would in Sedgwick County. Call (316) 833-8506 and a real bondsman picks up, day or night.
Almost everyone arrested anywhere in Sumner County, including inside Wellington city limits, is booked into the Sumner County Detention Center at 610 E Hillside, Wellington, KS 67152. That is the same address as the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office. It is the only county jail in Sumner County, so there is no second facility to check.
The jail’s direct number is 620-326-8943. The Sheriff’s Office main line is 620-326-8941. The Sheriff’s Office states that the facility operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but that not all services are available at all hours, which is a polite way of saying that booking, paperwork and release can take longer overnight and on weekends than they do in the middle of a Tuesday.
Two practical notes. First, booking is not instant. If your person was arrested twenty minutes ago, they may not appear on the jail roster yet, and the jail may not be able to tell you a bond amount until booking is finished. Second, the Sheriff’s Office says it will accept a cash bond for the full amount of the bond, and that choosing a bondsman is up to the inmate, their family or their friends. Nobody at the jail is going to pick a company for you, and nobody there is allowed to recommend one.
This is the part that trips people up, because Wellington has two different courts and they handle completely different cases.
Sumner County District Court handles felonies, most misdemeanors filed by the county, and anything charged by the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office or the Kansas Highway Patrol. It sits in the Sumner County Courthouse at 501 N Washington Ave, Wellington, KS 67152, and the clerk’s office can be reached at 620-326-5936. Sumner County is part of the 30th Judicial District, which also covers Barber, Harper, Kingman and Pratt counties, so judges in this district travel between courthouses and the calendar is not always a five day a week operation in any one county.
Wellington Municipal Court handles city ordinance violations and city traffic charges written by the Wellington Police Department. It is at 200 N C St, Wellington, KS 67152 and the number is 620-326-2791. The city states that court sessions for first appearances and pay extensions are held on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 3:00 p.m. The Wellington Police Department is in the same building, at 200 N C St, Ste 100, and its number is 620-326-3331.
Why it matters to you: a case in municipal court that meets only twice a month can mean a longer wait for a first appearance than a district court case would. If the charge is a city matter and your person stays in custody, the bond is what gets them out before that Wednesday docket, not after it.
Here is the actual sequence, so there are no surprises.
Having this in front of you saves real time:
If you do not have all of it, call anyway. We would rather start working and fill in the gaps than have you sit on your hands collecting paperwork.
The court sets the bond amount. We charge a percentage of that amount as our fee, and we can work with a down payment rather than the whole fee up front in most situations. The exact terms depend on the bond amount, the charge and the county, so we quote you on the call rather than publishing one number that turns out not to apply to your case. What we will not do is quote you one figure on the phone and a different one when you show up.
The fee is what you pay us for posting the bond. It is not a deposit and it is not refunded when the case ends, which is true of every bail bond company. Anyone telling you otherwise is not being straight with you.
If you co-sign, you are taking on responsibility for the full bond amount if the person does not show up to court. That is the whole point of the arrangement from the court’s side. Before you sign, be honest with yourself about two things: whether this person will actually appear on their court date, and whether you can stay in contact with them until the case is over. The best thing a co-signer can do is keep track of court dates and make sure the person gets there. Most forfeitures happen because someone forgot a date, not because they ran.
We answer the phone at (316) 833-8506 24 hours a day, and our Wichita office at 700 N Market St, Ste 1 is open and staffed around the clock, not just reachable by an answering service. If your person is sitting in the Sumner County Detention Center right now, call and we will tell you exactly where things stand.
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