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 2, 2026.
Juniata County, Pennsylvania, has about 23,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Juniata County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and three 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 Juniata 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: Juniata County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Juniata County
The Juniata County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Juniata County. It reported 2 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Juniata County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Mifflin, 520 residents: 1 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 Juniata County: the Juniata County State Police (state police); the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Juniata County and the Bureau of Forestry in Juniata County (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Juniata County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Juniata County Sheriff's Office: 2 for 2025, 2 for 2024 and 4 for 2023.
- Mifflin: 1 for 2024, 8 for 2023 and 8 for 2022.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 3 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 3 in 2024 against 12 in 2023.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Juniata County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Juniata 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 2020 the jail held about 150 people. 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 Juniata County
An arrest in Juniata County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Juniata County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ujsportal.pacourts.us/casesearch); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at juniatacountypa.gov/248/District-Attorney, phone 717-436-7725).
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 Juniata 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 Juniata County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Mifflin: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Juniata County State Police, the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Juniata County or the Bureau of Forestry in Juniata County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 717-436-7725, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Juniata County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at ujsportal.pacourts.us/casesearch.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at juniatacountypa.gov/263/Right-to-Know (page title: Right to Know | Juniata County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Juniata County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Juniata County: Mifflin. Mifflintown, Port Royal and Thompsontown 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 Juniata County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Juniata County each year?
The Juniata County Sheriff's Office reported 2 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Juniata County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 3 between them.
Where are people arrested in Juniata County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Juniata County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Juniata 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 Juniata County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Juniata 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at juniatacountypa.gov/263/Right-to-Know.
Is this the official Juniata 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.