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.
Somerset County, Pennsylvania, has about 72,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by 14 city agencies and seven 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 Somerset 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: Somerset County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Somerset County
The FBI lists ten cities in Somerset County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Somerset, 5,870 residents: 291 arrests reported for 2020.
- Windber, 3,807 residents: 177 arrests reported for 2025.
- Meyersdale, 2,007 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2025.
- Berlin, 1,947 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2025.
- Boswell, 1,197 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Central City, 969 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2024.
- Rockwood, 820 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Jennerstown, 664 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hooversville, 607 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Indian Lake, 390 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 Somerset County: the Salisbury Elk Lick School District (other); the Bureau of Forestry in Somerset County, the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Somerset County, the State Park Rangers at Kooser, the State Park Rangers at Laurel Ridge and one more (state agency); the Somerset County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Somerset 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.
- Windber: 177 for 2025, 145 for 2024, 175 for 2023, 173 for 2020 and 198 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Conemaugh Township: 99 for 2025, 52 for 2024 and 106 for 2023.
- Berlin: 7 for 2025, 28 for 2024, 4 for 2023 and 0 for 2022.
- Meyersdale: 5 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 34 for 2020 and 1 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Hooversville: 1 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 15 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Boswell: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- Rockwood: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 0 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Elk Lick Township: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Summit Township: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Jennerstown: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 1 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Somerset: 291 for 2020.
- Central City: 0 for 2024 and 4 for 2023.
Together, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 290 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 290 in 2025 against 226 in 2024, up 28 percent.
Shade Township, Central City and Indian Lake reported only part of 2025 (1 month, 10 months and 1 month) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Somerset County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Somerset 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 100 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 124 beds, and it ran at 82 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 sheriff's office at somersetcountysheriff.com (page title: Somerset County Jail Roster Lookup, PA, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Somerset County
Whether someone was arrested in Somerset County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the 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 Somerset 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 in Somerset, Windber, Meyersdale, Berlin, Boswell, Central City or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Salisbury Elk Lick School District, the Bureau of Forestry in Somerset County or the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Somerset County: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Somerset County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for ten of the 25 cities in Somerset County: Somerset, Windber, Meyersdale, Berlin, Boswell, Central City, Rockwood, Jennerstown, Hooversville and Indian Lake. Paint, Confluence, Salisbury, Garrett, Stoystown, Ursina, Wellersburg, Addison, Shanksville, Benson, New Baltimore, New Centerville and three more have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Shade Township Police Department, the Elk Lick Township Police Department, the Summit Township Police Department and one more as city agencies in Somerset County; Shade Township, Elk Lick Township, Summit Township and one 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 Somerset County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Somerset County each year?
Windber reported 177 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the ten agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 290 between them.
Where are people arrested in Somerset 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 Somerset 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 Somerset 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.
Is this the official Somerset 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.