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 28, 2026.
Snyder County, Pennsylvania, has about 40,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Snyder County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and three 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 Snyder 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: Snyder County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Snyder County
The Snyder County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Snyder County. It reported 9 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Selinsgrove, 5,501 residents: 184 arrests reported for 2020.
- Shamokin Dam, 1,633 residents: 19 arrests reported for 2025.
- Middleburg, 1,314 residents: 98 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 Snyder County: the Snyder County State Police (state police); the Bureau of Forestry in Snyder County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Snyder County (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Snyder 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.
- Middleburg: 98 for 2024, 102 for 2020 and 121 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Shamokin Dam: 19 for 2025, 48 for 2024, 60 for 2023, 55 for 2022, 62 for 2020 and 81 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Snyder County Sheriff's Office: 9 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 3 for 2023 and 13 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Selinsgrove: 184 for 2020 and 158 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 147 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 49 in 2024 against 63 in 2023, down 22 percent.
Selinsgrove reported only part of 2024 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Snyder County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Snyder 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 53 people, down from about 97 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 138 beds, and it ran at 38 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 Snyder County Sheriff's Office at snydercounty.org/departments/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Snyder County, PA Government), phone 570-837-3311, Monday - Friday: 8 am - 4 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Snyder County
An arrest in Snyder County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Snyder 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 snydercounty.org/departments/district-attorney, phone (570) 837-4233).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Snyder County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Pennsy), phone 570-837-4207, belongs to a lower court, not to the Snyder 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 Snyder 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 Snyder County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-837-3311.
- An arrest in Selinsgrove, Shamokin Dam or Middleburg: 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 the Snyder County State Police, the Bureau of Forestry in Snyder County or the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Snyder County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (570) 837-4233, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Snyder 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 570-837-4207, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at snydercounty.org (page title: Right-to-Know | Snyder County, PA Government).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Snyder County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Snyder County: Selinsgrove, Shamokin Dam and Middleburg. Beavertown, McClure and Freeburg 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 Snyder County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Snyder County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Selinsgrove (5,501)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Snyder County each year?
Middleburg reported 98 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the three agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 147 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Snyder County?
Ask the Snyder County Sheriff's Office at 570-837-3311; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at snydercounty.org/departments/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Snyder County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Snyder County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Snyder 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 Snyder County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Snyder 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 snydercounty.org.
Is this the official Snyder 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.