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 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Wicomico County, Maryland, has about 106,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and two campus, state or other agencies. 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 State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County. 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: Wicomico County public records, Maryland arrest records, Maryland inmate search and Maryland criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Wicomico County
The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Wicomico County. It reported 1,167 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Salisbury, 33,616 residents: 882 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fruitland, 5,973 residents: 343 arrests reported for 2025.
- Delmar, 4,748 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pittsville, 1,660 residents: 4 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 these agencies in Wicomico County: Salisbury University (campus police); the Wicomico County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Wicomico County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Salisbury: 882 for 2025, 1,016 for 2024, 860 for 2023, 804 for 2022, 1,405 for 2020 and 2,214 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Fruitland: 343 for 2025, 399 for 2024, 963 for 2022, 988 for 2020 and 1,014 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- Delmar: 11 for 2025, 95 for 2024, 69 for 2022, 54 for 2020 and 74 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- Pittsville: 4 for 2025, 4 for 2024 and 1 for 2023.
- Wicomico County Sheriff's Office: 1,167 for 2024, 1,166 for 2023, 1,507 for 2022, 1,464 for 2020 and 2,503 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,240 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,240 in 2025 against 1,514 in 2024, down 18 percent.
Through May 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 566 arrests, against 507 in the same months of 2025.
Wicomico County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (4 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wicomico County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Wicomico County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 250 people, down from about 320 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 530 beds, and it ran at 59 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office at wicomicosheriff.com/inmateSearch (page title: Inmate Search | Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office (MD)), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Wicomico County
Whether someone was arrested in Wicomico County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.state.md.us/clerks/wicomico/records, phone 410-543-6551); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at wicomicocounty.org/646/States-Attorney-Office, phone 410-548-4880).
Statewide, Maryland Judiciary Case Search is the free statewide case search of every Maryland court.
Maryland does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Criminal Justice Information System goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Wicomico 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 Maryland Public Information Act the agency must answer within 30 days, with a denial due within 10 working days, and it may charge staff time after the first two hours, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Salisbury, Fruitland, Delmar or Pittsville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Salisbury University or the Wicomico County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 410-548-4880, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, through the court records page at courts.state.md.us/clerks/wicomico/records, phone 410-543-6551.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mdcourts.gov/clerks/wicomico/recordsrequests (page title: Judicial Records Requests | Maryland Courts).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the CJIS Central Repository.
Cities in Wicomico County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the eight cities in Wicomico County: Salisbury, Fruitland, Delmar and Pittsville. Hebron, Willards, Sharptown and Mardela Springs have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Circuit Court for Wicomico County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Wicomico County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Fruitland (5,973)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wicomico County each year?
Salisbury reported 882 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,240 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Wicomico County?
Look on the custody page of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office at wicomicosheriff.com/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Wicomico County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wicomico County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Criminal Justice Information System is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Maryland Public Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Wicomico County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Maryland Public Information Act the answer is due within 30 days, with a denial due within 10 working days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mdcourts.gov/clerks/wicomico/recordsrequests.
Is this the official Wicomico 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.