Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Beaver County, Pennsylvania, has about 166,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Beaver County Sheriff's Office, 29 city agencies and seven campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 Beaver County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Beaver County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Beaver County
The Beaver County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Beaver County. It reported 10 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside 16 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:
- Aliquippa, 9,003 residents: 319 arrests reported for 2025.
- Economy, 8,990 residents: 120 arrests reported for 2025.
- Beaver Falls, 8,757 residents: 327 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ambridge, 6,886 residents: 213 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Brighton, 5,517 residents: 166 arrests reported for 2025.
- Monaca, 5,466 residents: 127 arrests reported for 2025.
- Beaver, 4,336 residents: 12 arrests reported for 2025.
- Beaver, 4,336 residents: 167 arrests reported for 2025.
- Rochester, 3,382 residents: 241 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ohioville, 3,309 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Midland, 2,366 residents: 37 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bridgewater, 734 residents: 15 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Ellwood City Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Beaver County, so its arrests are not broken out for Beaver County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Beaver County: County Detective in Beaver County and the New Brighton School District (other); Pennsylvania State University at Beaver (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Raccoon Creek, the Bureau of Forestry in Beaver County and the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Beaver County (state agency); the Beaver County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Beaver County
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.
- Chippewa Township: 459 for 2025 and 675 for 2024.
- Beaver Falls: 327 for 2025 and 507 for 2020; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Aliquippa: 319 for 2025, 187 for 2024 and 227 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Rochester: 241 for 2025, 295 for 2024, 287 for 2023, 319 for 2020 and 354 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Ambridge: 213 for 2025, 227 for 2024, 254 for 2023, 276 for 2020 and 297 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Beaver: 167 for 2025 and 229 for 2024.
- New Brighton: 166 for 2025, 213 for 2024 and 361 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- New Sewickley Township: 159 for 2025, 130 for 2024, 195 for 2020 and 220 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Monaca: 127 for 2025, 158 for 2024, 229 for 2023, 160 for 2020 and 283 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Economy: 120 for 2025, 177 for 2024, 111 for 2023, 140 for 2022, 106 for 2021 and 149 for 2020.
- Harmony Township: 90 for 2025, 129 for 2023, 82 for 2020 and 115 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Brighton Township: 74 for 2025, 72 for 2024 and 115 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the 27 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,641 arrests that year. The 24 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,223 in 2025 against 2,491 in 2024, down 11 percent.
Beaver County Sheriff's Office, Hopewell Township and Center Township reported only part of 2025 (11 months, 11 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Beaver County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Beaver County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 230 people, down from about 300 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 402 beds, and it ran at 58 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 Beaver County Sheriff's Office at beavercountypa.gov/departments/sheriff-s-office (page title: Beaver County | Sheriff's Office), phone 724-770-4600, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Beaver County
An arrest in Beaver County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Beaver County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at beavercountypa.gov/departments/clerk-of-courts, phone 724-770-4590); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at beavercountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone 724-773-8550).
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 Beaver County
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 Beaver County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 724-770-4600.
- An arrest in Aliquippa, Economy, Beaver Falls, Ambridge, New Brighton, Monaca or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by County Detective in Beaver County, Pennsylvania State University at Beaver or the State Park Rangers at Raccoon Creek: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 724-773-8550, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Beaver County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at beavercountypa.gov, phone 724-770-4590.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Beaver County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 16 of the 31 cities in Beaver County: the twelve named above and Koppel, South Heights, Darlington and Shippingport. Baden, Conway, Big Beaver, Industry, Freedom, West Mayfield, Patterson Heights, East Rochester, New Galilee, Fallston, Georgetown, Eastvale and four more have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Brighton Township Police Department, the Harmony Township Police Department, the Hopewell Township Police Department and ten more as city agencies in Beaver County; Brighton Township, Harmony Township, Hopewell Township and ten more are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Beaver County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Beaver County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Aliquippa (9,003)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Beaver County each year?
Chippewa Township reported 459 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 27 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,641 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Beaver County?
Ask the Beaver County Sheriff's Office at 724-770-4600; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at beavercountypa.gov.
Where are people arrested in Beaver County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Beaver County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Beaver County?
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 Beaver County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Beaver County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension.
Is this the official Beaver County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.