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.
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, has about 113,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lycoming County Sheriff's Office, seven city agencies and eight 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 Lycoming 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: Lycoming County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lycoming County
The Lycoming County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lycoming County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Lycoming County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Williamsport, 27,628 residents: 1,639 arrests reported for 2023.
- South Williamsport, 6,176 residents: 147 arrests reported for 2020.
- Montoursville, 4,678 residents: 149 arrests reported for 2019.
- Muncy, 2,405 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hughesville, 2,120 residents: 4 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 Lycoming County: the State Park Rangers at Little Pine, the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Lycoming County, the Bureau of Forestry in Lycoming County and Forest Rangers's Tiadaghton State Forest District 12 (state agency); Pennsylvania College of Technology (campus police); the Lycoming County State Police (state police); the South Williamsport Area School District and the Loyalsock Township School District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Lycoming 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.
- Williamsport: 1,639 for 2023 and 1,847 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Hughesville: 4 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 29 for 2023 and 5 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Muncy Township: 20 for 2025, 6 for 2024, 11 for 2023 and 6 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Muncy: 3 for 2025, 10 for 2024, 5 for 2023 and 41 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Lycoming County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 9 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 15 for 2022 and 31 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Montoursville: 149 for 2019.
- South Williamsport: 147 for 2020.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 1,684 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 0 in 2023 against 15 in 2022.
South Williamsport, Montoursville and Lycoming Regional reported only part of 2023 (10 months, 11 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lycoming County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lycoming 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 310 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 256 beds, and it ran at 71 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 Lycoming County Sheriff's Office at lycomingcountypa.gov/government/row_officers/government/sheriff/gov... (page title: Lycoming County, PA), phone 570-327-2280, 48 West Third Street, 3rd floor, Williamsport PA 17701, MON 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, 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 Lycoming County
Whether someone was arrested in Lycoming County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at lycomingcountypa.gov/government/row_officers/government/prothonotar...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lycomingcountypa.gov/government/row_officers/government/district_at..., phone 570-327-2456).
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 Lycoming 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 Lycoming County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-327-2280.
- An arrest in Williamsport, South Williamsport, Montoursville, Muncy or Hughesville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the State Park Rangers at Little Pine, Pennsylvania College of Technology or the Lycoming County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570-327-2456, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at lycomingcountypa.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lycomingcountypa.gov (page title: Lycoming County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Lycoming County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the ten cities in Lycoming County: Williamsport, South Williamsport, Montoursville, Muncy and Hughesville. Jersey Shore, Montgomery, Duboistown, Picture Rocks and Salladasburg have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Muncy Township Police Department and the Lycoming Regional Police Department as city agencies in Lycoming County; Muncy Township and Lycoming Regional 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 Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Lycoming County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Williamsport (27,628)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lycoming County each year?
Williamsport reported 1,639 arrests to the FBI for 2023, and the five agencies with every month of 2023 on file reported 1,684 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lycoming County?
Ask the Lycoming County Sheriff's Office at 570-327-2280; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at lycomingcountypa.gov.
Where are people arrested in Lycoming County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lycoming County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lycoming 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 Lycoming County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lycoming 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 lycomingcountypa.gov.
Is this the official Lycoming 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.