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 October 4, 2026.
Pike County, Pennsylvania, has about 62,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pike County Sheriff's Office, two 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 Pike 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: Pike County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pike County
The Pike County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pike County. It reported 2 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Pike County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Milford, 1,144 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 Pike County: the State Park Rangers at Promised Land, the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Pike County and the Bureau of Forestry in Pike County (state agency); County Detective in Pike County (other); the Pike County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pike 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.
- Eastern Pike Regional: 133 for 2025, 220 for 2023, 268 for 2022 and 189 for 2020; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Milford: 4 for 2025, 7 for 2024, 22 for 2023, 21 for 2020 and 18 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Pike County Sheriff's Office: 2 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 10 for 2020 and 3 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 139 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6 in 2025 against 12 in 2024.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pike County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pike 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 210 people, down from about 320 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 375 beds, and it ran at 56 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 Pike County Sheriff's Office at pikepa.org/courts___law/correctional_facility/index.php (page title: Pike County, PA), phone 570-775-5500, 1500 Address 175 Pike County Blvd Lords Valley, PA 18428, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists its inmates at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Pike County
An arrest in Pike County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Pike County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cc.pikepa.org/courtscheduling.public); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pikepa.org/courts___law/district_attorney/index.php, phone 570-296-3482).
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 Pike 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 Pike County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-775-5500.
- An arrest in Milford: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Park Rangers at Promised Land, County Detective in Pike County or the Pike 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, 570-296-3482, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pike County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at cc.pikepa.org/courtscheduling.public.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pike County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Pike County: Milford. Matamoras has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Eastern Pike Regional Police Department as a city agency in Pike County; Eastern Pike Regional 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 Pike County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pike County each year?
Eastern Pike Regional reported 133 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 139 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pike County?
Ask the Pike County Sheriff's Office at 570-775-5500; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pikepa.org.
Where are people arrested in Pike County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pike County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pike 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 Pike County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pike 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.
Is this the official Pike 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.