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 October 3, 2026.
Indiana County, Pennsylvania, has about 83,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Indiana County Sheriff's Office, six 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 Indiana 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: Indiana County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Indiana County
The Indiana County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Indiana County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Indiana County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Indiana, 14,294 residents: 383 arrests reported for 2025.
- Blairsville, 3,211 residents: 144 arrests reported for 2024.
- Homer City, 1,725 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clymer, 1,317 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Saltsburg, 768 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2024.
- Cherry Tree, 272 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Indiana County: the Bureau of Forestry in Indiana County, the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Indiana County and the State Park Rangers at Yellow Creek (state agency); the Indiana County State Police (state police); Indiana University (campus police); County Detective in Indiana County (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Indiana 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.
- Indiana: 383 for 2025, 446 for 2024, 415 for 2020 and 589 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Homer City: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2020 and 6 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Indiana County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 4 for 2024 and 45 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Clymer: 0 for 2025, 6 for 2024 and 70 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Cherry Tree: 0 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Blairsville: 144 for 2024 and 82 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Saltsburg: 1 for 2024.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 383 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 383 in 2025 against 457 in 2024, down 16 percent.
Through June 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 146 arrests, against 253 in the same months of 2025.
Saltsburg and Blairsville reported only part of 2025 (9 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Indiana County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Indiana 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 140 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 256 beds, and it ran at 56 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 Indiana County Sheriff's Office at indianacountypa.gov/departments/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Indiana County Pennsylvania), phone (724) 465.3930, 825 Philadelphia St. Indiana, PA 15701-3973, Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 3, 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 Indiana County
Whether someone was arrested in Indiana County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Indiana County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at indianacountypa.gov/departments/prothonotary-clerk-of-courts, phone (724) 465-3855); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at indianacountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone 724-465-3835).
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 Indiana 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 Indiana County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (724) 465.3930.
- An arrest in Indiana, Blairsville, Homer City, Clymer, Saltsburg or Cherry Tree: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Bureau of Forestry in Indiana County, the Indiana County State Police or the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Indiana County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 724-465-3835, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Indiana County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at indianacountypa.gov, phone (724) 465-3855.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Indiana County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the 14 cities in Indiana County: Indiana, Blairsville, Homer City, Clymer, Saltsburg and Cherry Tree. Ernest, Marion Center, Creekside, Glen Campbell, Plumville, Armagh, Shelocta and Smicksburg 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 Indiana County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Indiana County each year?
Indiana reported 383 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 383 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Indiana County?
Ask the Indiana County Sheriff's Office at (724) 465.3930; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at indianacountypa.gov.
Where are people arrested in Indiana County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Indiana County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Indiana 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 Indiana County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Indiana 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 Indiana 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.