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 September 30, 2026.
Montour County, Pennsylvania, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by two city agencies and four 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 Montour 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: Montour County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Montour County
The Montour County - Sheriff is the county law enforcement agency of Montour County.
The FBI lists one city in Montour County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Danville, 4,193 residents: 91 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 Montour County: the Montour County State Police (state police); the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Montour County and the Bureau of Forestry in Montour County (state agency); County Detective in Montour County (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Montour 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.
- Danville: 91 for 2024, 95 for 2020 and 138 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Mahoning Township: 19 for 2025, 23 for 2024, 21 for 2023, 31 for 2022 and 63 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 114 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 23 in 2024 against 21 in 2023.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Montour County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Montour 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 17 people, down from about 19 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 46 beds, and it ran at 37 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 Montour County - Sheriff at montourcounty.gov/departments/sheriff (page title: Montour County | Sheriff), phone 570.271.3020, 253 Mill Street Danville, PA 17821, Monday 9:00AM - 4:00PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Montour County
An arrest in Montour County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Montour County Court of Common Pleas, kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at montourcounty.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone 570.271.3068).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Montour County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Penns), phone 570-271-3000, belongs to a lower court, not to the Montour County Court of Common Pleas.
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 Montour 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 Montour County - Sheriff: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570.271.3020.
- An arrest in Danville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Montour County State Police, the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Montour County or the Bureau of Forestry in Montour County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570.271.3068, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Montour County Court of Common Pleas it is kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us, phone 570-271-3000, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montourcounty.gov (page title: Montour County | Open Records Request Information).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Montour County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Montour County: Danville. Washingtonville has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries Mahoning Township Police Department, Montour County as a city agency in Montour County; Mahoning Township is 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 Montour County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Montour County each year?
Danville reported 91 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 114 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Montour County?
Ask the Montour County - Sheriff at 570.271.3020; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at montourcounty.gov/departments/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Montour County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Montour County - Sheriff; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Montour 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 Montour County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Montour County - Sheriff 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 montourcounty.gov.
Is this the official Montour 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.