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.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, has about 124,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by 13 city agencies and six 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 Fayette 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: Fayette County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Fayette County
The FBI lists eight cities in Fayette County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Uniontown, 9,554 residents: 413 arrests reported for 2024.
- Connellsville, 6,682 residents: 382 arrests reported for 2025.
- Masontown, 3,153 residents: 39 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brownsville, 2,099 residents: 86 arrests reported for 2025.
- Perryopolis, 1,621 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Point Marion, 1,112 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2024.
- Dunbar, 977 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Everson, 742 residents: 0 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.
Southwest Regiona Police Departmentl, Fayette County is listed by the FBI across two counties including Fayette County, so its arrests are not broken out for Fayette County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Fayette County: Pennsylvania State University at Fayette (campus police); the Fayette County State Police (state police); the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Fayette County, the Bureau of Forestry in Fayette County and the State Park Rangers at Ohiopyle (state agency); County Detective in Fayette County (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Fayette 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.
- Connellsville: 382 for 2025, 341 for 2024, 284 for 2020 and 290 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Washington Township: 100 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 23 for 2023 and 33 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Brownsville: 86 for 2025, 116 for 2024 and 103 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Masontown: 39 for 2025, 58 for 2024, 56 for 2020 and 63 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- German Township: 20 for 2025, 55 for 2024 and 84 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Redstone Township: 15 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 31 for 2023 and 18 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Luzerne Township: 1 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 29 for 2020 and 11 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Everson: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 2 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Dunbar: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Perryopolis: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 1 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Uniontown: 413 for 2024 and 361 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Point Marion: 14 for 2024, 34 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 7 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
Together, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 643 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 643 in 2025 against 645 in 2024, down 0.3 percent.
Uniontown and Point Marion reported only part of 2025 (11 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fayette County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fayette 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 180 people, down from about 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 262 beds, and it ran at 68 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Fayette County
Whether someone was arrested in Fayette County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Fayette 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 fayettecountypa.org/492/District-Attorneys-Office, phone 724-430-1245).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at courtrecord.net/fayette-county-pa-courts (page title: Fayette County Court Records for Free (Fayette County, PA)), phone 724-430-1233, belongs to a lower court, not to the Fayette 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 Fayette 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 in Uniontown, Connellsville, Masontown, Brownsville, Perryopolis, Point Marion or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Pennsylvania State University at Fayette, the Fayette County State Police or the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Fayette County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 724-430-1245, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Fayette 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 courtrecord.net/fayette-county-pa-courts, phone 724-430-1233, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Fayette County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the 18 cities in Fayette County: Uniontown, Connellsville, Masontown, Brownsville, Perryopolis, Point Marion, Dunbar and Everson. South Connellsville, Fairchance, Belle Vernon, Smithfield, Newell, Fayette City, Vanderbilt, Dawson, Markleysburg and Ohiopyle have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries Washington Township Police Department, Fayette County, the German Township Police Department, the Luzerne Township Police Department and two more as city agencies in Fayette County; Washington Township, German Township, Luzerne Township and two 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 Fayette County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fayette County each year?
Connellsville reported 382 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the ten agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 643 between them.
Where are people arrested in Fayette County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fayette 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 Fayette County?
From the agency that made the arrest: for most arrests in Fayette County, Southwest Regiona Police Departmentl, Fayette County. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension.
Is this the official Fayette 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.