Columbia County Busted Mugshots is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, retrieve an official booking record, or decide a court matter. Contact the responsible public office directly for those services.
Official Records and Custody Contacts
Start with the office that created or holds the record. The addresses and channels below are official routes, not services offered by this private reference site.
Columbia County Prison
721 Iron Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Main phone: 570-784-4815
Records Department: Ethan Whitmire, 570-389-5718, ewhitmire@columbiapa.org
Published public pages do not state prison records-office hours. Verify the present custodian and access route before visiting.
Columbia County Sheriff
35 West Main Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Weekday phone: 570-389-5622
Nights, weekends, and holidays: 570-784-6300
Published office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Columbia County Right-to-Know Office
David J. Witchey, Agency Open Records Officer
35 West Main Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
570-389-5613
dwitchey@columbiapa.org
Municipal police records
Catawissa Borough Police: 118 North 3rd Street, Catawissa, PA 17820, 570-356-7102; borough Right-to-Know contact Connie Cole, 570-356-2561.
Berwick Police: 1800 North Market Street, Berwick, PA 18603, 570-752-3677.
Bloomsburg Police general line: 570-784-4155. These agencies maintain their own records. A municipal arrest post is not a Columbia County Prison custody confirmation.
Choose the Right Official Channel
Each public system answers a narrower question. Use a date, name, and agency when contacting an office, and distinguish a police publication from custody or a court result.
- For current county custody or an intake-record question, begin with Columbia County Prison Records.
- For an arrest post or a borough police report, use the responsible municipal police department and its Right-to-Know channel.
- For a warrant or sheriff publication, use the Columbia County Sheriff and its official CRIMEWATCH material.
- For a court docket or disposition, search the Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System portal.
- For a person sentenced to state custody, use the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections locator; it does not search the county pretrial population.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the official Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or ICE detainee locator, not a county arrest post.
- For release or transfer notifications, register with Pennsylvania SAVIN.
Charges at arrest are accusations. An agency post, a prison response, and a docket can describe different stages of a case, so use the source that matches the question being asked.