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 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Greene County, Pennsylvania, has about 34,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Greene County Sheriff's Office, two 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 Greene 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: Greene County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Greene County
The Greene County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Greene County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
One city in Greene County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Waynesburg, 3,701 residents: 42 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 Greene Washington Regional Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Greene County, so its arrests are not broken out for Greene County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Greene County: County Detective in Greene County (other); the State Park Rangers's Ryerson Station, the Bureau of Forestry in Greene County and the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Greene County (state agency); the Greene County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Greene 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.
- Cumberland Township: 176 for 2025, 196 for 2024, 53 for 2020 and 158 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Waynesburg: 42 for 2025, 49 for 2024, 104 for 2020 and 94 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Greene County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 218 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 218 in 2025 against 245 in 2024, down 11 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Greene County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Greene 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 66 people, down from about 67 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 144 beds, and it ran at 46 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office at greenecountypa.gov/department-sheriff (page title: Greene County Sheriff), phone 724-852-5218, 10 East High Street 1st Floor Waynesburg, PA 15370, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Greene County
Whether someone was arrested in Greene County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Greene 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 greenecountypa.gov/department-district-attorney, phone 724-852-5272).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at greene-county-courts.org (page title: Greene County Court), phone (724) 852-5300, belongs to a lower court, not to the Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 724-852-5218.
- An arrest in Waynesburg: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by County Detective in Greene County, the State Park Rangers's Ryerson Station or the Bureau of Forestry in Greene County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 724-852-5272, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Greene 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 greene-county-courts.org, phone (724) 852-5300, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Greene County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Greene County: Waynesburg. Carmichaels, Rices Landing, Greensboro and Clarksville have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries Cumberland Township Police Department, Greene County as a city agency in Greene County; Cumberland Township is 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 Greene County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Greene County each year?
Cumberland Township reported 176 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 218 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Greene County?
Ask the Greene County Sheriff's Office at 724-852-5218; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at greenecountypa.gov/department-sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Greene County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Greene County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Greene 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 Greene County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Greene 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 Greene 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.