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 2020. 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 28, 2026.
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, in Snyder County, has about 5,500 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 Snyder 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: Selinsgrove public records, Snyder County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Selinsgrove
The FBI lists Selinsgrove with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Selinsgrove Police Department. It reported 184 arrests for 2020, 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 Snyder County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 9 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Snyder County: the Snyder County State Police (state police); the Bureau of Forestry in Snyder County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Snyder County (state agency).
How Many Arrests Selinsgrove 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.
- Selinsgrove: 184 for 2020 and 158 for 2019.
Selinsgrove's 184 arrests in 2020 were up 16 percent from 158 in 2019.
Across Snyder County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 147 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Selinsgrove Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Selinsgrove 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 53 people, down from about 97 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 138 beds, and it ran at 38 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 Snyder County Sheriff's Office at snydercounty.org/departments/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Snyder County, PA Government), phone 570-837-3311, Monday - Friday: 8 am - 4 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Selinsgrove
Whether someone was arrested in Selinsgrove, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Snyder County Court of Common Pleas, kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at snydercounty.org/departments/district-attorney, phone (570) 837-4233).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Snyder County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Pennsy), phone 570-837-4207, belongs to a lower court, not to the Snyder County Court of Common Pleas.
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 Selinsgrove
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 Selinsgrove police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at selinsgrove.org/public-safety/police-department (page title: Police Department | Borough of Selinsgrove Pa), phone (570) 374-8655, 100 West Pine Street Selinsgrove, PA 17870, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Snyder County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-837-3311.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (570) 837-4233, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Snyder County Court of Common Pleas it is kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us, phone 570-837-4207, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at snydercounty.org (page title: Right-to-Know | Snyder County, PA Government).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Snyder County guide covers every agency in the county: Snyder County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Selinsgrove each year?
Selinsgrove reported 184 arrests to the FBI for 2020, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Selinsgrove?
Ask the Snyder County Sheriff's Office at 570-837-3311; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at snydercounty.org/departments/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Selinsgrove booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Snyder County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Selinsgrove?
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 Selinsgrove?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Selinsgrove police for its own arrests, the Snyder 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 snydercounty.org.
Is this the official Selinsgrove 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.