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 on September 23, 2026.
Allegany County, New York, has about 47,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Allegany County Sheriff's Office, ten city agencies and one campus 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Allegany County Supreme and County Courts. 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: Allegany County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Allegany County
The Allegany County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Allegany County. It reported 143 arrests for 2019, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside six 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:
- Alfred, 5,471 residents: 213 arrests reported for 2024.
- Wellsville, 4,551 residents: 191 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bolivar, 1,001 residents: 60 arrests reported for 2025.
- Andover, 891 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2024.
- Belmont, 834 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2024.
- Angelica, 707 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2022.
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 Allegany County: the Alfred State University of New York Police (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Allegany 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.
- Wellsville: 191 for 2025, 308 for 2024, 310 for 2023, 248 for 2022, 210 for 2020 and 251 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Alfred: 213 for 2024, 179 for 2023 and 325 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Bolivar: 60 for 2025, 40 for 2024 and 5 for 2023.
- Friendship Town: 3 for 2025, 30 for 2024, 42 for 2023, 50 for 2022, 19 for 2020 and 42 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Willing Town: 6 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- Independence Town: 4 for 2024, 9 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 3 for 2020 and 8 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Belmont: 2 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 3 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Andover: 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- Allegany County Sheriff's Office: 143 for 2019.
- Cuba Town: 77 for 2022.
- Angelica: 0 for 2022, 4 for 2020 and 8 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 603 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 603 in 2024 against 545 in 2023, up 11 percent.
Cuba Town reported only part of 2024 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Allegany County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Allegany 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 66 people on an average day, down from about 86 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 164 beds, and it ran at 52 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 Allegany County Sheriff's Office at alleganycountysheriff-ny.gov/inmateSearch (page title: Inmate Search | Allegany County Sheriff’s Office NY), 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.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, whose inmate locator is at nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Allegany County
Whether someone was arrested in Allegany County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Allegany County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Allegany County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at alleganyco.gov/departments/county-clerk/search-online-records); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at alleganyco.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone (585) 268-9225).
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 Allegany County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Allegany County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Alfred, Wellsville, Bolivar, Andover, Belmont or Angelica: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Alfred State University of New York Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (585) 268-9225, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Allegany County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at alleganyco.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Allegany County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the ten cities in Allegany County: Alfred, Wellsville, Bolivar, Andover, Belmont and Angelica. Cuba, Canaseraga, Richburg and Almond have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Cuba Town Police Department, the Friendship Town Police Department, the Willing Town Police Department and one more as city agencies in Allegany County; Cuba Town, Friendship Town, Willing Town and one more are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Allegany County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Allegany County each year?
Wellsville reported 191 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Allegany County sent in full, the eight with every month on file reported 603 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Allegany County?
Look on the custody page of the Allegany County Sheriff's Office at alleganycountysheriff-ny.gov/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Allegany County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Allegany County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Allegany County?
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 Allegany County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Allegany County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Allegany 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.