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 between September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Pike County, Kentucky, has about 55,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pike County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and one other agency. 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 Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Pike Circuit Court. 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: Pike County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pike County
The Pike County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pike County. It reported 210 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Pikeville, 7,366 residents: 1,384 arrests reported for 2025.
- Coal Run Village, 1,596 residents: 40 arrests reported for 2025.
- Elkhorn City, 978 residents: 36 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Pike County: Pikeville Independent Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pike 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.
- Pikeville: 1,384 for 2025, 1,456 for 2024, 1,731 for 2023, 1,730 for 2022, 1,417 for 2021 and 929 for 2020.
- Pike County Sheriff's Office: 210 for 2025, 271 for 2024, 299 for 2023, 253 for 2021, 294 for 2020 and 357 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Coal Run Village: 40 for 2025, 35 for 2024, 26 for 2023, 29 for 2022, 9 for 2021 and 10 for 2020.
- Elkhorn City: 36 for 2025, 42 for 2024, 58 for 2023, 15 for 2022, 36 for 2021 and 41 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,670 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,670 in 2025 against 1,804 in 2024, down 7.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 657 arrests, against 997 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pike County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pike 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 400 people on an average day, down from about 410 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 346 beds, and it is running at 116 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Pike County Sheriff's Office at pikecountydetention.com (page title: Welcome to the Pike County Detention Center), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Kentucky Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at kool.corrections.ky.gov/.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Pike County
An arrest in Pike County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Pike Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kycourts.gov/Courts/County-Information/Pages/Pike.aspx, phone 606-433-7557); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pike-county-commonwealth-s-attorney.webnode.page/our-team).
Kentucky is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Administrative Office of the Courts, not the state police, sells name-based criminal record reports to the public, for $25 a search, through the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Pike 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 Kentucky Open Records Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying, 10 cents a page for standard copies.
- An arrest by the Pike County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Pikeville, Coal Run Village or Elkhorn City: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Pikeville Independent Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Commonwealth's Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pike Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-433-7557.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pike County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Pike County: Pikeville, Coal Run Village and Elkhorn City.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Pike Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pike County each year?
Pikeville reported 1,384 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,670 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pike County?
Ask the Pike County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pikecountydetention.com.
Where are people arrested in Pike County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pike County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pike County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts: the Administrative Office of the Courts, not the state police, sells name-based criminal record reports to the public, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Kentucky Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Pike County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pike County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Pike 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.