SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has about 351,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office, 30 city agencies and 12 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 Westmoreland 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: Westmoreland County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Westmoreland County

The Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Westmoreland County. It reported 60 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.

Arrests inside 23 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:

  • Murrysville, 20,729 residents: 183 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Greensburg, 14,586 residents: 722 arrests reported for 2024.
  • New Kensington, 11,877 residents: 927 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lower Burrell, 11,542 residents: 220 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Jeannette, 8,566 residents: 395 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Latrobe, 7,906 residents: 376 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Monessen, 6,704 residents: 339 arrests reported for 2020.
  • Vandergrift, 4,955 residents: 135 arrests reported for 2019.
  • Arnold, 4,657 residents: 314 arrests reported for 2020.
  • Scottdale, 4,329 residents: 56 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Mount Pleasant, 4,150 residents: 63 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Irwin, 3,798 residents: 43 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 Westmoreland County: County Detective in Westmoreland County, Westmoreland County Park and the Franklin Regional School District (other); the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Pennsylvania State University at New Kensington and Seton Hill University (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Keystone, the State Park Rangers at Linn Run, Forest Rangers's Forbes State Forest District 4, the Bureau of Forestry in Westmoreland County and one more (state agency); the Westmoreland County State Police (state police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Westmoreland County

The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.

  • New Kensington: 927 for 2025, 1,009 for 2024, 951 for 2023 and 952 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • North Huntingdon Township: 941 for 2025, 914 for 2024, 599 for 2023 and 924 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Greensburg: 722 for 2024, 599 for 2023 and 607 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Jeannette: 395 for 2024, 425 for 2023, 387 for 2022 and 416 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
  • Latrobe: 376 for 2024, 310 for 2023, 451 for 2022, 355 for 2020 and 284 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Rostraver Township: 375 for 2024, 433 for 2023, 353 for 2022, 392 for 2020 and 451 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Lower Burrell: 220 for 2025, 258 for 2024, 168 for 2023, 248 for 2020 and 310 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Allegheny Township: 165 for 2025, 232 for 2024, 252 for 2023 and 197 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Murrysville: 183 for 2025, 199 for 2024, 191 for 2023 and 178 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Penn Township: 153 for 2024, 136 for 2023 and 270 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Washington Township: 105 for 2025, 88 for 2024 and 206 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
  • Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office: 60 for 2024, 25 for 2023, 10 for 2022, 9 for 2020 and 27 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Together, the 25 agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 5,063 arrests that year. The 23 of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 4,061 in 2024 against 3,775 in 2023, up 7.6 percent.

St. Clair Township, Arnold, Vandergrift, Monessen and one more reported only part of 2024 (11 months, 9 months, 9 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Westmoreland County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Westmoreland 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 520 people, down from about 620 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 701 beds, and it ran at 74 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 Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office at apps.westmorelandcountypa.gov/prison/PrisonInmates/PRISON_INMATES.ASP (page title: Westmoreland County Inmates), 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 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 Westmoreland County

An arrest in Westmoreland County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Westmoreland 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; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at westmorelandcountypa.gov/304/District-Attorney, phone (724) 830-3949).

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 Westmoreland 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 Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Murrysville, Greensburg, New Kensington, Lower Burrell, Jeannette, Latrobe 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 Westmoreland County, Westmoreland County Park or the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (724) 830-3949, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at westmorelandcountypa.gov (page title: Open Records Request | Westmoreland County, PA).
  • Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

Cities in Westmoreland County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 23 of the 44 cities in Westmoreland County: the twelve named above and Manor, Trafford, Delmont, West Newton, Derry, Southwest Greensburg, South Greensburg, North Belle Vernon, Ligonier, Avonmore and Penn. Youngwood, New Stanton, West Leechburg, Export, North Irwin, Oklahoma, New Florence, East Vandergrift, Sutersville, Hyde Park, New Alexandria, Bolivar and nine more have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Rostraver Township Police Department, Washington Township Police Department, Westmoreland County, the St. Clair Township Police Department and four more as city agencies in Westmoreland County; Rostraver Township, Washington Township, St. Clair Township and four 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 Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Westmoreland County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Westmoreland County each year?

New Kensington reported 927 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Westmoreland County sent in full, the 25 with every month on file reported 5,063 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Westmoreland County?

Look on the custody page of the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office at apps.westmorelandcountypa.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Westmoreland County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Westmoreland 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 Westmoreland County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Westmoreland 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 westmorelandcountypa.gov.

Is this the official Westmoreland 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.