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.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, has about 145,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Schuylkill County Sheriff's Office, 31 city agencies and eight 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 Schuylkill 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: Schuylkill County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Schuylkill County
The Schuylkill County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Schuylkill County. It reported 4 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside 15 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:
- Pottsville, 13,404 residents: 435 arrests reported for 2024.
- Tamaqua, 6,944 residents: 179 arrests reported for 2025.
- Schuylkill Haven, 5,273 residents: 131 arrests reported for 2025.
- Minersville, 4,426 residents: 277 arrests reported for 2024.
- Shenandoah, 4,156 residents: 284 arrests reported for 2024.
- Frackville, 3,899 residents: 103 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mahanoy City, 3,535 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2025.
- Orwigsburg, 3,014 residents: 60 arrests reported for 2025.
- St. Clair, 2,763 residents: 52 arrests reported for 2024.
- Ashland, 2,496 residents: 29 arrests reported for 2025.
- McAdoo, 2,474 residents: 185 arrests reported for 2019.
- Pine Grove, 2,071 residents.
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 Schuylkill County: County Detective in Schuylkill County, the Shenandoah Valley School District and Reading Northern Railroad in Schuylkill County (other); Pennsylvania State University at Schuylkill (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Tuscarora, the Bureau of Forestry in Schuylkill County and the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Schuylkill County (state agency); the Schuylkill County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Schuylkill 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.
- Tamaqua: 179 for 2025, 139 for 2024, 161 for 2023 and 408 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Schuylkill Haven: 131 for 2025, 258 for 2024, 431 for 2023 and 183 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Frackville: 103 for 2025, 97 for 2024, 179 for 2020 and 122 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Orwigsburg: 60 for 2025, 47 for 2024, 57 for 2023 and 84 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- West Mahanoy Township: 47 for 2025, 38 for 2024, 13 for 2023, 22 for 2022 and 14 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Ryan Township: 34 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Ashland: 29 for 2025, 59 for 2024, 42 for 2023, 87 for 2022, 68 for 2020 and 60 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- West Penn Township: 14 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 47 for 2023, 30 for 2020 and 21 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Rush Township: 10 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 73 for 2020 and 115 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Mahanoy City: 7 for 2025, 11 for 2024, 17 for 2023 and 0 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Kline Township: 6 for 2025, 13 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 10 for 2022 and 23 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Foster Township: 6 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 10 for 2023, 8 for 2022, 5 for 2020 and 15 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the 21 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 631 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 631 in 2025 against 719 in 2024, down 12 percent.
McAdoo, Minersville, Pottsville, St. Clair and six more reported only part of 2025 (2 months, 11 months, 5 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Schuylkill County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Schuylkill 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 220 people, down from about 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 277 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Schuylkill County Sheriff's Office at schuylkillcountypa.gov/government/sheriff/central_booking.php (page title: Welcome to Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania), 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 Schuylkill County
Whether someone was arrested in Schuylkill County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Schuylkill County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; UJS Web Portal, the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Schuylkill 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 Schuylkill County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Pottsville, Tamaqua, Schuylkill Haven, Minersville, Shenandoah, Frackville or another of the cities listed above: 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 Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania State University at Schuylkill or the State Park Rangers at Tuscarora: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Schuylkill County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 15 of the 31 cities in Schuylkill County: the twelve named above and Port Carbon, Tower City and Ringtown. Coaldale, Tremont, Cressona, Girardville, New Philadelphia, Palo Alto, Gordon, Deer Lake, Auburn, Gilberton, Mechanicsville, Middleport and four more have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Ryan Township Police Department, the Hegins Township Police Department, the Mahanoy Township Police Department and 13 more as city agencies in Schuylkill County; Ryan Township, Hegins Township, Mahanoy Township and 13 more 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 Schuylkill County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Schuylkill County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Pottsville (13,404)
- Tamaqua (6,944)
- Schuylkill Haven (5,273)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Schuylkill County each year?
Tamaqua reported 179 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 21 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 631 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Schuylkill County?
Look on the custody page of the Schuylkill County Sheriff's Office at schuylkillcountypa.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Schuylkill County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Schuylkill County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Schuylkill 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 Schuylkill County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Schuylkill 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 Schuylkill 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.