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.
Monroe County, Pennsylvania, has about 167,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, four 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 Monroe 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: Monroe County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Monroe County
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Monroe County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
One city in Monroe County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Delaware Water Gap, 665 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 Monroe County: County Detective in Monroe County (other); the Monroe County State Police (state police); the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Monroe County, the Bureau of Forestry in Monroe County, Forest Rangers's Delaware State Forest District 19 and the State Park Rangers at Tobyhanna (state agency); East Stroudsburg University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Monroe 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.
- Stroud Area Regional: 1,215 for 2025, 1,495 for 2024, 1,358 for 2023 and 1,454 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Pocono Township: 382 for 2025, 427 for 2024 and 794 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Monroe County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Delaware Water Gap: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- Pocono Mountain Regional: 1,331 for 2020 and 1,438 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,597 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,597 in 2025 against 1,922 in 2024, down 17 percent.
Pocono Mountain Regional reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Monroe County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Monroe 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 330 people, down from about 380 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 435 beds, and it ran at 77 percent of it that year. 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 Monroe County
An arrest in Monroe County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at monroecountypa.gov/departments/prothonotary/resources/c-tracksearch); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at monroecountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney).
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 Monroe 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 Monroe County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Delaware Water Gap: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by County Detective in Monroe County, the Monroe County State Police or the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Monroe County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at monroecountypa.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at monroecountypa.gov/departments/open-records (page title: Monroe County | Open Records).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Monroe County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Monroe County: Delaware Water Gap. East Stroudsburg, Stroudsburg and Mount Pocono have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department, the Pocono Township Police Department and the Stroud Area Regional Police Department as city agencies in Monroe County; Pocono Mountain Regional, Pocono Township and Stroud Area 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 Monroe County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Monroe County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- East Stroudsburg (9,445)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Monroe County each year?
Stroud Area Regional reported 1,215 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,597 between them.
Where are people arrested in Monroe County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Monroe 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 Monroe County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Monroe 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 monroecountypa.gov/departments/open-records.
Is this the official Monroe 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.