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 October 2, 2026.
Lehighton, Pennsylvania, in Carbon County, has about 5,300 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 Carbon 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: Lehighton public records, Carbon County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lehighton
The FBI lists Lehighton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lehighton Police Department. It reported 193 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 Carbon County Sheriff's Office is the county agency.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Carbon County: the State Park Rangers at Hickory Run, the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Carbon County and the State Park Rangers at Beltzville (state agency); the Carbon County State Police (state police); Reading Northern Railroad in Carbon County (other).
How Many Arrests Lehighton 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.
- Lehighton: 193 for 2025, 272 for 2024, 269 for 2020 and 484 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Lehighton's 193 arrests in 2025 were down 29 percent from 272 in 2024.
Across Carbon County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 505 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lehighton Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Lehighton 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 140 people, down from about 250 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 248 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 Carbon County Sheriff's Office at carboncountysheriff.com (page title: Carbon County Sheriff's), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Lehighton
An arrest in Lehighton can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Carbon County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at carboncourts.com/publicaccess.htm); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at carboncourts.com/DA.HTM, phone 570-325-2718).
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 Lehighton
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 Lehighton police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at lehightonborough.com/open-records (page title: General Information | Open Records | Lehighton Borough), phone (610) 377-4002, 124 South Third Street Lehighton, PA 18235, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Carbon County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570-325-2718, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Carbon County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at carboncourts.com/publicaccess.htm.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Carbon County guide covers every agency in the county: Carbon County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lehighton each year?
Lehighton reported 193 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Lehighton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Carbon County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lehighton?
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 Lehighton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lehighton police for its own arrests, the Carbon 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 Lehighton 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.