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.
Bedford County, Pennsylvania, has about 48,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bedford County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and five 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 Bedford 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: Bedford County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bedford County
The Bedford County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bedford County. It reported 11 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Bedford County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Bedford, 2,843 residents: 107 arrests reported for 2020.
- Everett, 1,748 residents: 29 arrests reported for 2025.
- Saxton, 717 residents: 12 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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bedford County: the Bureau of Forestry in Bedford County, the State Park Rangers at Shawnee, the State Park Rangers at Blue Knob and the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Bedford County (state agency); the Bedford County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bedford County
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.
- Everett: 29 for 2025, 31 for 2024, 30 for 2023 and 26 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Saxton: 12 for 2025, 8 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 21 for 2022, 13 for 2021 and 3 for 2020.
- Bedford County Sheriff's Office: 11 for 2025, 11 for 2024 and 0 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Bedford: 107 for 2020 and 86 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 52 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 52 in 2025 against 50 in 2024, up 4 percent.
Through March 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 13 arrests, against 14 in the same months of 2025.
Bedford reported only part of 2025 (7 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bedford County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bedford County 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 120 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 186 beds, and it ran at 67 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 Bedford County Sheriff's Office at bedfordcountypa.org/departments/sheriff/index.php (page title: Welcome to Bedford County), phone (814) 623-2910, 200 South Juliana St. Bedford, PA 15522, 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 Bedford County
An arrest in Bedford County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Bedford 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 bedfordcountypa.org/courts/district_attorney/index.php, phone (814) 623-4855).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Bedford County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Penns), phone 814-623-4812, belongs to a lower court, not to the Bedford 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 Bedford 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 Bedford County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (814) 623-2910.
- An arrest in Bedford, Everett or Saxton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Bureau of Forestry in Bedford County, the State Park Rangers at Shawnee or the State Park Rangers at Blue Knob: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (814) 623-4855, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Bedford 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 814-623-4812, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Bedford County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the 11 cities in Bedford County: Bedford, Everett and Saxton. Hyndman, Schellsburg, Manns Choice, Woodbury, New Paris, Hopewell, Rainsburg and St. Clairsville have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Bedford County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bedford County each year?
Everett reported 29 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 52 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bedford County?
Ask the Bedford County Sheriff's Office at (814) 623-2910; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bedfordcountypa.org.
Where are people arrested in Bedford County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bedford County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bedford 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 Bedford County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bedford 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 Bedford 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.