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.
Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, has about 12,000 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 Westmoreland 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: Lower Burrell public records, Westmoreland County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lower Burrell
The FBI lists Lower Burrell with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lower Burrell Police Department. It reported 220 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 Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 60 arrests for 2024.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Westmoreland County: County Detective in Westmoreland County, Westmoreland County Park and the Franklin Regional School District (other); the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Pennsylvania State University at New Kensington and Seton Hill University (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Keystone, the State Park Rangers at Linn Run, Forest Rangers's Forbes State Forest District 4, the Bureau of Forestry in Westmoreland County and one more (state agency); the Westmoreland County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Lower Burrell 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.
- Lower Burrell: 220 for 2025, 258 for 2024, 168 for 2023, 248 for 2020 and 310 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Lower Burrell's 220 arrests in 2025 were down 15 percent from 258 in 2024.
Across Westmoreland County, the 25 agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 5,063 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lower Burrell Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Lower Burrell 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 520 people, down from about 620 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 701 beds, and it ran at 74 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 Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office at apps.westmorelandcountypa.gov/prison/PrisonInmates/PRISON_INMATES.ASP (page title: Westmoreland County Inmates), 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 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Lower Burrell
Whether someone was arrested in Lower Burrell, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; 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 westmorelandcountypa.gov/304/District-Attorney, phone (724) 830-3949).
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 Lower Burrell
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 Lower Burrell police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at lowerburrellpolice.org/232/Records-Requests (page title: Records Requests | Lower Burrell, PA), phone 724-339-4287, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (724) 830-3949, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at westmorelandcountypa.gov (page title: Open Records Request | Westmoreland County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Westmoreland County guide covers every agency in the county: Westmoreland County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lower Burrell each year?
Lower Burrell reported 220 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lower Burrell?
Look on the custody page of the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office at apps.westmorelandcountypa.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Lower Burrell booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lower Burrell?
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 Lower Burrell?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lower Burrell police for its own arrests, the Westmoreland 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at westmorelandcountypa.gov.
Is this the official Lower Burrell 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.