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 2024. 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.
Bangor, Pennsylvania, in Northampton County, has about 5,200 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 Northampton County Court of Common Pleas. 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: Bangor public records, Northampton County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Bangor
The FBI lists Bangor with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bangor Police Department. It reported 71 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Northampton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 9 arrests for 2024.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Northampton County: County Detective in Northampton County (other); Lehigh University, Moravian College and Lafayette College (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, the Bureau of Forestry in Northampton County and the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Northampton County (state agency); the Northampton County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Bangor 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.
- Bangor: 71 for 2024, 24 for 2023, 117 for 2020 and 80 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Across Northampton County, the 25 agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 5,473 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bangor Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bangor 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 2023 the jail held about 570 people, down from about 670 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 838 beds, and it ran at 68 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 Northampton County Sheriff's Office at norcopa.gov/sheriffs-department (page title: Northampton County, PA), phone (610) 829-6501, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bangor
An arrest in Bangor can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: UJS Web Portal, the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search, which shows whether charges were filed; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at norcopa.gov/district-attorney, phone (610) 829-6630).
Pennsylvania is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22 a search, through the Pennsylvania State Police. 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 Bangor
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Right-to-Know Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Bangor police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at bangorborough.org/bangor-police-department (page title: Police Department | Borough of Bangor), phone 610-759-2200, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Northampton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (610) 829-6501.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (610) 829-6630, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Northampton County guide covers every agency in the county: Northampton County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bangor each year?
Bangor reported 71 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bangor?
Ask the Northampton County Sheriff's Office at (610) 829-6501; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at norcopa.gov/sheriffs-department.
Where are people arrested in Bangor booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Northampton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bangor?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Pennsylvania State Police: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Right-to-Know Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Bangor?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bangor police for its own arrests, the Northampton County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension.
Is this the official Bangor 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.