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.
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, has about 43,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by two 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 Huntingdon 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: Huntingdon County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Huntingdon County
The HuntingdonCounty - Sheriff is the county law enforcement agency of Huntingdon County.
The FBI lists two cities in Huntingdon County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Huntingdon, 6,857 residents: 273 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mount Union, 2,244 residents: 23 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 Huntingdon County: the Huntingdon County State Police (state police); the State Park Rangers at Trough Creek, the State Park Rangers at Greenwood Furnace, Forest Rangers's Rothrock State Forest District 5, the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Huntingdon County and one more (state agency); Juniata College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Huntingdon 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.
- Huntingdon: 273 for 2025, 198 for 2024 and 167 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Mount Union: 23 for 2025, 26 for 2024 and 94 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 296 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 296 in 2025 against 224 in 2024, up 32 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 141 arrests, against 154 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Huntingdon County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Huntingdon 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 40 people, down from about 44 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 46 beds, and it ran at 87 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 HuntingdonCounty - Sheriff at huntingdoncountypa.gov/departments/sheriff (page title: HuntingdonCounty | Sheriff), phone (814) 643-0880, 430 Penn Street Huntingdon, PA 16652, 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 Huntingdon County
Whether someone was arrested in Huntingdon County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Huntingdon County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at huntingdoncountypa.gov/departments/prothonotary-and-clerk-of-courts...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at huntingdoncountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone 814-643-5371).
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 Huntingdon 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 HuntingdonCounty - Sheriff: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (814) 643-0880.
- An arrest in Huntingdon or Mount Union: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Huntingdon County State Police, the State Park Rangers at Trough Creek or the State Park Rangers at Greenwood Furnace: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 814-643-5371, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Huntingdon County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at huntingdoncountypa.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Huntingdon County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the 18 cities in Huntingdon County: Huntingdon and Mount Union. Orbisonia, Three Springs, Petersburg, Mapleton, Rockhill, Alexandria, Broad Top City, Saltillo, Mill Creek, Marklesburg, Dudley, Shirleysburg and four more 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 Huntingdon County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Huntingdon County each year?
Huntingdon reported 273 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 296 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Huntingdon County?
Ask the HuntingdonCounty - Sheriff at (814) 643-0880; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at huntingdoncountypa.gov/departments/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Huntingdon County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the HuntingdonCounty - Sheriff; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the HuntingdonCounty - Sheriff 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 Huntingdon 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.