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.
Tioga County, Pennsylvania, has about 41,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tioga County Sheriff's Office, eight 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 Tioga 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: Tioga County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tioga County
The Tioga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tioga County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five 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:
- Wellsboro, 3,422 residents: 74 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mansfield, 2,937 residents: 124 arrests reported for 2024.
- Elkland, 1,788 residents: 39 arrests reported for 2024.
- Blossburg, 1,509 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2025.
- Westfield, 1,099 residents: 10 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 Tioga County: the Tioga County State Police (state police); the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Tioga County, the Bureau of Forestry in Tioga County, Forest Rangers's Tioga State Forest District 16, the State Park Rangers at Leonard Harrison and one more (state agency); Mansfield University (campus police); County Detective in Tioga County (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tioga 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.
- Wellsboro: 74 for 2025.
- Lawrence Township: 31 for 2025, 35 for 2024, 48 for 2023 and 15 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Westfield: 10 for 2025, 17 for 2024, 28 for 2023, 28 for 2022, 24 for 2020 and 23 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Blossburg: 8 for 2025, 8 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 6 for 2022, 16 for 2020 and 27 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Gaines Township: 4 for 2025, 22 for 2024, 8 for 2023 and 21 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Tioga County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- Osceola Township: 0 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 1 for 2022.
- Mansfield: 124 for 2024, 131 for 2023, 92 for 2020 and 99 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Elkland: 39 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 8 for 2020 and 43 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 127 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 53 in 2025 against 83 in 2024, down 36 percent.
Elkland and Mansfield reported only part of 2025 (4 months and 8 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tioga County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tioga 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 60 people, down from about 84 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 141 beds, and it ran at 43 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 Tioga County Sheriff's Office at tiogacountypa.us/departments/sheriff-s-office (page title: Tioga County | Sheriff's Office), phone 570-724-3491, 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 Tioga County
Whether someone was arrested in Tioga County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Tioga County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tiogacountypa.us/departments/court-administration, phone 570-723-8380); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tiogacountypa.us/departments/district-attorney, phone 570-724-1350).
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 Tioga 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 Tioga County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-724-3491.
- An arrest in Wellsboro, Mansfield, Elkland, Blossburg or Westfield: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Tioga County State Police, the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Tioga County or the Bureau of Forestry in Tioga County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570-724-1350, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Tioga County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at tiogacountypa.us, phone 570-723-8380.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tiogacountypa.us/departments/right-to-know (page title: Tioga County | Right To Know).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Tioga County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the ten cities in Tioga County: Wellsboro, Mansfield, Elkland, Blossburg and Westfield. Lawrenceville, Knoxville, Tioga, Liberty and Roseville have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Gaines Township Police Department, the Osceola Township Police Department and Lawrence Township Police Department, Tioga County as city agencies in Tioga County; Gaines Township, Osceola Township and Lawrence Township 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 Tioga County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tioga County each year?
Wellsboro reported 74 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 127 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Tioga County?
Ask the Tioga County Sheriff's Office at 570-724-3491; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at tiogacountypa.us/departments/sheriff-s-office.
Where are people arrested in Tioga County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tioga County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tioga 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 Tioga County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tioga 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 tiogacountypa.us/departments/right-to-know.
Is this the official Tioga 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.