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.
Perry County, Pennsylvania, has about 47,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by one city agency 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 Perry 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: Perry County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Perry County
The FBI lists one city in Perry County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Marysville, 2,721 residents: 16 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 Perry County: the State Park Rangers at Little Buffalo, Forest Rangers's Tuscarora State Forest District 3, the Bureau of Forestry in Perry County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Perry County (state agency); the Perry County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Marysville Reports
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.
- Marysville: 16 for 2025, 18 for 2024, 26 for 2023 and 6 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Through May 2026, Marysville reported 4 arrests, against 6 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Perry County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Perry 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 83 people, down from about 92 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 135 beds, and it ran at 61 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 sheriff's office at isoms.perrycountysheriff.net/portal/Jail (page title: Inmates | ISOMS Portal), 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 Perry County
Whether someone was arrested in Perry County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Perry 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 perryco.org/departments/district-attorney, phone 717-582-2131).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Perry County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Pennsyl), phone 717-582-5143, belongs to a lower court, not to the Perry 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 Perry 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 Marysville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Park Rangers at Little Buffalo, Forest Rangers's Tuscarora State Forest District 3 or the Bureau of Forestry in Perry County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 717-582-2131, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Perry 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 717-582-5143, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at perryco.org/open-records-policy (page title: Open Records Policy | Perry County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Perry County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the nine cities in Perry County: Marysville. Newport, Duncannon, Bloomfield, Liverpool, Millerstown, Blain, Landisburg and New Buffalo 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 Perry County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Perry County each year?
Marysville reported 16 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Perry County?
Ask the sheriff's office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at isoms.perrycountysheriff.net/portal/Jail.
Where are people arrested in Perry 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 Perry 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 Perry 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at perryco.org/open-records-policy.
Is this the official Perry 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.