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 October 3, 2026.
Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and six 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 Wyoming 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: Wyoming County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Wyoming County
The Wyoming County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Wyoming County. It reported 0 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
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:
- Tunkhannock, 1,727 residents: 135 arrests reported for 2025.
- Tunkhannock (township), 1,727 residents: 80 arrests reported for 2025.
- Meshoppen, 321 residents: 33 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 Wyoming County: Reading Northern Railroad in Wyoming County and County Detective in Wyoming County (other); the State Park Rangers at Vosburg Neck, the Bureau of Forestry in Wyoming County and the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Wyoming County (state agency); the Wyoming County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Wyoming 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.
- Tunkhannock: 135 for 2025, 155 for 2024 and 181 for 2023.
- Tunkhannock (township): 80 for 2025, 94 for 2024 and 71 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Meshoppen: 33 for 2025, 58 for 2024, 61 for 2023, 43 for 2020 and 73 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Wyoming County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 248 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 248 in 2025 against 307 in 2024, down 19 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 122 arrests, against 151 in the same months of 2025.
Wyoming County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wyoming County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Wyoming 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 49 people, down from about 58 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 78 beds, and it ran at 63 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 Wyoming County Sheriff's Office at wyomingcountypa.gov/sheriff (page title: Sheriff's Office | Wyoming County, PA, USA), phone (570) 996-2265, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 3, 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 Wyoming County
An arrest in Wyoming County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Wyoming County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at wyomingcountypa.gov/courts, phone 570-836-3151); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at wyomingcountypa.gov/da, phone (570) 836-4681).
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 Wyoming 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 Wyoming County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (570) 996-2265.
- An arrest in Tunkhannock, Tunkhannock (township) or Meshoppen: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Reading Northern Railroad in Wyoming County, County Detective in Wyoming County or the State Park Rangers at Vosburg Neck: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (570) 836-4681, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Wyoming County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at wyomingcountypa.gov/courts, phone 570-836-3151.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at wyomingcountypa.gov/right-to-know (page title: Public Records | Wyoming County, PA, USA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Wyoming County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Wyoming County: Tunkhannock, Tunkhannock (township) and Meshoppen. Factoryville, Nicholson and Laceyville 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 Wyoming County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wyoming County each year?
Tunkhannock reported 135 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 248 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Wyoming County?
Ask the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office at (570) 996-2265; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at wyomingcountypa.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Wyoming County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wyoming 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 Wyoming County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wyoming 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 wyomingcountypa.gov/right-to-know.
Is this the official Wyoming 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.