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 25, 2026.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne County, has about 30,000 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 Luzerne 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: Hazleton public records, Luzerne County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Hazleton
The FBI lists Hazleton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hazleton Police Department. It reported 352 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Luzerne County: Luzerne County Community College, Pennsylvania State University at Hazleton, Pennsylvania State University at Wilkes-Barre and Wilkes University (campus police); Reading Northern Railroad in Luzerne County, County Detective in Luzerne County, the Hazleton Area School District, the Crestwood School District and two more (other); the State Park Rangers at Ricketts Glen, the State Park Rangers at Frances Slocum, the Bureau of Forestry in Luzerne County and the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Luzerne County (state agency); the Luzerne County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Hazleton Reports
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.
- Hazleton: 352 for 2025, 515 for 2024, 578 for 2022, 1,544 for 2020 and 1,430 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
Hazleton's 352 arrests in 2025 were down 32 percent from 515 in 2024.
Across Luzerne County, the 28 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,627 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hazleton Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hazleton 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 410 people, down from about 490 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 537 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Sheriff's Department | Luzerne County, PA at luzernecounty.org/529/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff's Department | Luzerne County, PA), phone 570-825-1651, 200 N River Street Courthouse, Basement Level Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711, Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, 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 Hazleton
Whether someone was arrested in Hazleton, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at luzernecounty.org/172/Clerk-of-Courts, phone 570.825.1585); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at luzernecounty.org/206/District-Attorney, phone 570-825-1674).
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 Hazleton
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 Hazleton police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at hazletoncity.org/departments/police-department (page title: City of Hazleton Police Department), phone 570-459-4940, 780 North Church Street, Hazleton, PA 18201, Monday- Friday 8:30 am - 4:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sheriff's Department | Luzerne County, PA: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-825-1651.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570-825-1674, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at luzernecounty.org/172/Clerk-of-Courts, phone 570.825.1585.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at luzernecounty.org (page title: Right-to-Know Law & Requests | Luzerne County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Luzerne County guide covers every agency in the county: Luzerne County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hazleton each year?
Hazleton reported 352 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hazleton?
Ask the Sheriff's Department | Luzerne County, PA at 570-825-1651; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at luzernecounty.org/529/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Hazleton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sheriff's Department | Luzerne County, PA; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hazleton?
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 Hazleton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hazleton police for its own arrests, the Sheriff's Department | Luzerne County, PA for the sheriff's. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at luzernecounty.org.
Is this the official Hazleton 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.