Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 26, 2026.
Massena, New York, in St. Lawrence County, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the St. Lawrence County Supreme and County Courts. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Massena public records, St. Lawrence County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Massena
The FBI lists Massena with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Massena Village Police Department. It reported 403 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 321 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in St. Lawrence County: the Potsdam State University of New York Police and the Canton State University of New York Police (campus police).
How Many Arrests Massena Reports
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.
- Massena: 403 for 2025, 332 for 2024, 341 for 2023, 337 for 2022 and 263 for 2021.
Massena's 403 arrests in 2025 were up 21 percent from 332 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Massena reported 167 arrests, against 271 in the same months of 2025.
Across St. Lawrence County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,705 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Massena Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Massena 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 130 people on an average day, up from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 186 beds, and it ran at 56 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office at stlawco.gov/Departments/Sheriff/CorrectionalDivision (page title: Correctional Division | St. Lawrence County), phone (315) 379-2367, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision lists its inmates at nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Massena
An arrest in Massena can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the St. Lawrence County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at stlawco.gov/Departments/CountyClerk/CourtRecords, phone 315-379-2237); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at stlawco.gov/Departments/DistrictAttorney).
Statewide, eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily).
New York is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Office of Court Administration sells a statewide search of criminal court records by name and date of birth, for $95 a search, through the New York State Office of Court Administration. 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 Massena
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 Freedom of Information Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, at least with an acknowledgment and a date for the full answer, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Massena police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at massena.us/275/Obtain-Police-Reports-Records (page title: Obtain Police Reports & Records | Massena, NY), phone 315-769-3577, 60 Main Street Massena, NY 13662, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (315) 379-2367.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the St. Lawrence County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at stlawco.gov, phone 315-379-2237.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The St. Lawrence County guide covers every agency in the county: St. Lawrence County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Massena each year?
Massena reported 403 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Massena?
Ask the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office at (315) 379-2367; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at stlawco.gov.
Where are people arrested in Massena booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Massena?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the New York State Office of Court Administration: the Office of Court Administration sells a statewide search of criminal court records by name and date of birth, for $95. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Freedom of Information Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Massena?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Massena police for its own arrests, the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Freedom of Information Law the answer is due within 5 business days, at least with an acknowledgment and a date for the full answer.
Is this the official Massena website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.