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.
Sharon, Pennsylvania, in Mercer County, has about 13,000 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 Mercer 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: Sharon public records, Mercer County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Sharon
The FBI lists Sharon with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Sharon Police Department. It reported 745 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 Mercer County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 5 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Mercer County: the Mercer County State Police (state police); the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Mercer County, the Bureau of Forestry in Mercer County and the State Park Rangers at Maurice K. Goddard (state agency); the Grove City Area School District and County Detective in Mercer County (other); Pennsylvania State University at Shenango Valley and Thiel College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Sharon 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.
- Sharon: 745 for 2025, 706 for 2024, 649 for 2023, 668 for 2020 and 667 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Sharon's 745 arrests in 2025 were up 5.5 percent from 706 in 2024.
Across Mercer County, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 2,206 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sharon Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sharon 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 230 people, down from about 290 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 310 beds, and it ran at 75 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 Mercer County Sheriff's Office at mercercountypa.gov/sheriff (page title: Mercer County Sheriff's Office), phone 724 662 6135, 205 South Erie Street Mercer, PA 16137, MONDAY THRU THURSDAY 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., 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 Sharon
Whether someone was arrested in Sharon, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Mercer County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mercercountypa.gov/ClerkOfCourts/default.htm, phone 724-662-3800); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mercercountypa.gov/districtattorney, phone 724 662 3800).
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 Sharon
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 Sharon police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofsharon.net/departments/Police/PoliceForms (page title: Official Website for the City of Sharon, Pennsylvania | Police Forms), phone 724-662-6110, 911 Location 155 W. Connelly Blvd Sharon, PA 16146, Mon - Fri: 8:30am - 4:30pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Mercer County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 724 662 6135.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 724 662 3800, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Mercer County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at mercercountypa.gov/ClerkOfCourts/default.htm, phone 724-662-3800.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mercercountypa.gov/OpenRecords/Default.htm (page title: Right to Know | Open Records Office).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Mercer County guide covers every agency in the county: Mercer County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sharon each year?
Sharon reported 745 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sharon?
Ask the Mercer County Sheriff's Office at 724 662 6135; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at mercercountypa.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Sharon booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Mercer County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sharon?
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 Sharon?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sharon police for its own arrests, the Mercer 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 mercercountypa.gov/OpenRecords/Default.htm.
Is this the official Sharon 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.