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.
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, has about 46,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by four 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 Mifflin 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: Mifflin County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Mifflin County
One city in Mifflin County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Lewistown, 8,394 residents: 522 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 Mifflin County: County Detective in Mifflin County (other); the State Park Rangers at Reeds Gap, the Bureau of Forestry in Mifflin County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Mifflin County (state agency); the Mifflin County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Mifflin 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.
- Lewistown: 522 for 2025, 351 for 2023, 337 for 2020 and 366 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Mifflin County Regional: 288 for 2025, 331 for 2024, 277 for 2023 and 219 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Granville Township: 98 for 2025, 92 for 2024, 62 for 2023 and 35 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Armagh Township: 24 for 2025, 7 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 13 for 2020 and 20 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 932 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 410 in 2025 against 430 in 2024, down 4.7 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 349 arrests, against 352 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mifflin County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Mifflin 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 130 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 169 beds, and it ran at 79 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the sheriff's office at mifflincountypa.gov/correctional-facility/inmate-lookup (page title: Mifflin County | Inmate Lookup), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Mifflin County
Whether someone was arrested in Mifflin County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the sheriff's office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Mifflin County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mifflincountypa.gov/courts, phone 717-248-4613); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mifflincountypa.gov/district-attorney/about-us, phone (717) 248-8408).
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 Mifflin 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 in Lewistown: 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 County Detective in Mifflin County, the State Park Rangers at Reeds Gap or the Bureau of Forestry in Mifflin County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (717) 248-8408, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Mifflin County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at mifflincountypa.gov/courts, phone 717-248-4613.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Mifflin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the six cities in Mifflin County: Lewistown. Burnham, Juniata Terrace, McVeytown, Kistler and Newton Hamilton have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Mifflin County Regional Police Department, the Armagh Township Police Department and the Granville Township Police Department as city agencies in Mifflin County; Mifflin County Regional, Armagh Township and Granville Township 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 Mifflin County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Mifflin County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lewistown (8,394)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mifflin County each year?
Lewistown reported 522 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 932 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Mifflin County?
Look on the custody page of the sheriff's office at mifflincountypa.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Mifflin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mifflin 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 Mifflin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the sheriff's office or the city's police. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension.
Is this the official Mifflin 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.