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 between September 28, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Cambria County, Pennsylvania, has about 130,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cambria County Sheriff's Office, 29 city agencies and ten 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 Cambria 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: Cambria County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cambria County
The Cambria County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cambria County. It reported 36 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside 19 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:
- Johnstown, 17,853 residents: 461 arrests reported for 2025.
- Northern Cambria, 3,448 residents.
- Ebensburg, 3,278 residents: 26 arrests reported for 2025.
- Nanty-Glo, 2,417 residents: 29 arrests reported for 2025.
- Portage, 2,381 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Geistown, 2,296 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2025.
- Patton, 1,677 residents: 19 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ferndale, 1,501 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cresson, 1,480 residents: 42 arrests reported for 2024.
- Gallitzin, 1,480 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cresson (township), 1,480 residents: 21 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gallitzin (township), 1,480 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Cambria County: the Cambria County District Attorney's Office, the Penn Cambria School District and the Greater Johnstown School District (other); the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and Mount Aloysius University (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Prince Gallitzin, Forest Rangers's Gallitzin State Forest District 6, the Bureau of Forestry in Cambria County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Cambria County (state agency); the Cambria County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cambria 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.
- Richland Township: 466 for 2025, 519 for 2024 and 454 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Johnstown: 461 for 2025, 517 for 2024 and 836 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- West Hills Regional: 149 for 2025, 109 for 2024, 97 for 2020 and 67 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- East Taylor Township: 125 for 2025.
- Cambria Township: 88 for 2025, 117 for 2023, 74 for 2020 and 122 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Cambria County Sheriff's Office: 36 for 2025 and 0 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
- Stonycreek Township: 36 for 2025, 27 for 2024, 44 for 2020 and 76 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Portage: 33 for 2025, 35 for 2024, 80 for 2020 and 82 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Carrolltown: 32 for 2025, 14 for 2024, 15 for 2023, 26 for 2020 and 306 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Nanty-Glo: 29 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 14 for 2023 and 51 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Jackson Township: 27 for 2025, 29 for 2024, 84 for 2020 and 106 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Ebensburg: 26 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 47 for 2023, 113 for 2020 and 138 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the 24 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,608 arrests that year. The 21 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,359 in 2025 against 1,509 in 2024, down 9.9 percent.
Northern Cambria, Cresson, Adams Township, Croyle Township and one more reported only part of 2025 (9 months, 11 months, 11 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cambria County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cambria 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 370 people, down from about 450 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 490 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 Cambria County Sheriff's Office at cambriacountypa.gov/sheriff-office (page title: Sheriff Office | Cambria County, PA), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Cambria County
For Cambria County the place to look is the case index of the Cambria 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 court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Cambria County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Penns), phone 814-472-5440, belongs to a lower court, not to the Cambria 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 Cambria County
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 Cambria County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Johnstown, Northern Cambria, Ebensburg, Nanty-Glo, Portage, Geistown 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 the Cambria County District Attorney's Office, the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown or the State Park Rangers at Prince Gallitzin: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Cambria 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 814-472-5440, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cambria County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 19 of the 32 cities in Cambria County: the twelve named above and Hastings, Loretto, East Conemaugh, Carrolltown, Sankertown, Summerhill and Vintondale. Westmont, Southmont, Dale, South Fork, Lilly, Scalp Level, Brownstown, Lorain, Tunnelhill, Daisytown, Ashville, Wilmore and three more have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries Jackson Township Police Department, Cambria County, Conemaugh Township Police Department, Cambria County, Richland Township Police Department, Cambria County and seven more as city agencies in Cambria County; Jackson Township, Conemaugh Township, Richland Township and seven 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 Cambria County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cambria County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Johnstown (17,853)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cambria County each year?
Richland Township reported 466 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 24 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,608 between them.
Where are people arrested in Cambria County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cambria County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cambria 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 Cambria County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cambria 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 Cambria 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.