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 2023. 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 25, 2026.
Dunmore, Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna County, has about 14,000 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 Lackawanna 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: Dunmore public records, Lackawanna County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Dunmore
The FBI lists Dunmore with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Dunmore Police Department. It reported 137 arrests for 2023, 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lackawanna County: the State Park Rangers at Lackawanna, Forest Rangers's Pinchot State Forest District 11, the Bureau of Forestry in Lackawanna County and the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Lackawanna County (state agency); County Detective in Lackawanna County, Canadian Pacific Railway, the Mid Valley School District, the Dunmore School District and one more (other); Pennsylvania State University at Worthington Scranton, the University of Scranton and Lackawanna College at Scranton (campus police); the Lackawanna County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Dunmore 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.
- Dunmore: 137 for 2023, 136 for 2022 and 294 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Dunmore's 137 arrests in 2023 were up 0.7 percent from 136 in 2022.
Across Lackawanna County, the 16 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,905 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dunmore Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Dunmore 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 810 people, up from about 620 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,183 beds, and it ran at 61 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 Lackawanna County Sheriff's Office at lackawannacounty.org/government/elected_officials/sheriff/index.php (page title: Welcome to Lackawanna County, PA), phone 570-963-6719, 200 N. Washington Avenue 1st floor Scranton, PA 18503, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists its inmates at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Dunmore
An arrest in Dunmore can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at lackawannacounty.org/government/elected_officials/clerk_of_judicial..., phone 814-472-6146); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lackawannacounty.org/government/elected_officials/district_attorney..., phone 570-963-6717).
Statewide, UJS Web Portal is the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search.
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 Dunmore
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 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 Dunmore police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at dunmorepa.gov/police-department (page title: Borough of Dunmore), phone (570) 343-0851, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lackawanna County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-963-6719.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570-963-6717, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at lackawannacounty.org, phone 814-472-6146.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Lackawanna County guide covers every agency in the county: Lackawanna County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dunmore each year?
Dunmore reported 137 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dunmore?
Ask the Lackawanna County Sheriff's Office at 570-963-6719; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at lackawannacounty.org.
Where are people arrested in Dunmore booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lackawanna County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dunmore?
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 Dunmore?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dunmore police for its own arrests, the Lackawanna 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 Dunmore 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.