New Berlin Busted Mugshots and Police Records
New Berlin sits third among Union County's municipalities on the map. The borough counted 801 people at the 2020 Census. Its law-enforcement contact point is the New Berlin Police Department, led by Chief Joshua Dreisbach. Administrative lines are (570) 966-1735 and (570) 966-4705, and email goes to nbpolice@newberlinpa.us. For non-emergencies, Union County Dispatch answers at (570) 523-1113. These details lead straight to the documented department instead of a generic search hit.
An arrest here does not always mean a county-jail booking. A person might be cited, released, transferred, or held elsewhere. When local detention happens, the county destination is Union County Jail in Lewisburg. The borough police keep the incident record. The jail may hold a current-custody entry, and the Pennsylvania UJS system may later carry the case docket. Each source answers its own question.
Note: Check the official docket for disposition, since charges can be changed, dismissed, withdrawn, diverted, or resolved another way.
Where New Berlin Busted Mugshots Appear
No verified public arrest log exists for New Berlin. No daily bulletin, booking list, weekly blotter, photo page, or archive either. Union County Jail is no different. Its official web page offers no name roster, booking feed, photo display, or release archive. That absence describes what is public, not what agencies keep internally. It simply means direct contact and narrowly framed requests work better than guessing at a publication schedule.
| Channel | Photo status | Official? | Access purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Berlin Police | No public image page verified | Yes | Confirm police contacts and route an event-record inquiry. |
| Union County Jail | No public image display verified | Yes | Ask about current county custody or the proper booking custodian. |
| UJS Case Search | No booking-photo function | Yes | Find a filed case, hearing, bail event, or disposition. |
| PA DOC locator | Separate state-custody service | Yes | Use only for later state custody or supervision. |
| Mugshots.com Union County page | Historical and sometimes unavailable | No | Unofficial historical aggregation, not a current county record. |
The nonofficial row belongs at the bottom of any search list. That county-local page does label New Berlin among its places and carries historical date filters. But it also shows entries marked "No Mugshot Available." The borough, police department, jail, and court all have no hand in publishing it. Its contents shift over time. It can neither confirm current custody nor verify that any listed event happened as described.
Note: No official source offers a same-day, 48-hour, weekly, or archived online booking display for New Berlin or Union County.
Busted in New Berlin: Search the Right Record
Match the record path to the question at hand. County staff answer custody questions only when someone was actually held. New Berlin Police hold the event record for arrests the department handled. UJS serves as the statewide public court portal once a case is filed. For the county-wide picture of the roster absence, photo limits, and custody alternatives, the Union County custody and booking-record resource lays it all out.
- Contact New Berlin Police or Union County Dispatch to establish whether the borough department handled the incident and whether a report is available.
- For possible local detention, call Union County Jail at 103 South Second Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837, (570) 524-8711 and ask whether staff can confirm current county custody or direct a particular record request.
- Search UJS Case Search using a name, docket, OTN, complaint or incident information, or arresting agency.
- If a later sentence may have moved the person into state custody, use PA DOC’s public locator. For a federal institution, use the federal locator instead of assuming county custody.
Timing runs unevenly across these systems. An agency report can exist weeks before any court filing. Someone once held may be free now and gone from local custody. A county jail result is never a state-prison result. A court docket is not a live custody check. Keep each source tied to the specific question you are asking.
New Berlin Busted Mugshots and Right-to-Know
With no online blotter to search, New Berlin's documented request route matters more than usual. The borough's Right-to-Know page names Rebecca Witmer as Open Records Officer. A written request should name the record sought, the person involved, an approximate date, the agency, and any report or case number. That detail gives the borough a fair shot at finding a police report or pointing to another custodian.
Asking for "all mugshots" is not the same as a focused record request. No official borough or county page declares booking photographs public online. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Mezzacappa opinion and the state criminal-history framework make disclosure hinge on the actual record and its attached restrictions. A custodian can review a request and still limit, redact, or withhold parts of it.
New Berlin Open Records Officer
Rebecca Witmer
Borough of New Berlin
700 Water Street, PO Box 330
New Berlin, PA 17855-0330
Police: (570) 966-1735 or (570) 966-4705
Dispatch: (570) 523-1113
The department contacts shown here come from the official New Berlin Police page.
The official department view is built for contact and request routing. It carries no arrest gallery, no public photo feed, and no inmate roster.
New Berlin Busted Mugshots and Old Records
History and current custody call for two different searches. New Berlin once served as the Union County seat. A historic courthouse still stands on the town square. That legacy means old newspaper stories and courthouse references are everywhere. But none of it tells you who is in jail today. An aging news clipping or photograph is an archival clue, not a booking record, and it needs its own search path.
The Union County Historical Society is the place to dig. Its research library and newspaper microfilm cover local history. Staff answer questions at (570) 524-8666 or info@unioncopahistory.com. Published hours run Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with a noon-to-1:00 closure. Call or email ahead with a newspaper title or date range. Then check any historical arrest claim against an official case file or archive record.
Local news outlets sometimes carry relevant coverage too. Prism News, the Standard-Journal, Daily Item, and Sun-Gazette all report in the region. None functions as a complete New Berlin booking service, though. For a closer look at how a news story differs from an official record, see Mugshots in the News.
Note: New Berlin's county-seat past points researchers toward archives and microfilm, not toward any current borough or jail photo collection.
New Berlin County and Federal Custody
The Union County Jail is easy to mix up with the state and federal facilities near Lewisburg and Allenwood. The county jail is strictly local. It only matters when it confirms a hold. A state sentence or state supervision belongs to PA DOC. Federal custody is a different world entirely, searchable through the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. Match the institution and the custody status, not just a familiar place name.
Work from the event outward. New Berlin Police may hold the original report. Union County Jail may have a booking record if it held the person. UJS can show the court case. PA DOC and BOP cover what happens after booking. That order keeps a report, a booking, and a court outcome from blurring into one mistaken match.
The Union County Sheriff's Office, reachable at (570) 524-8716, handles sheriff functions as an official local contact. It publishes no New Berlin roster, booking feed, or photo gallery. The Sheriff's mobile app shares public-safety information and outreach. Nothing in its store description confirms an inmate-photo or booking-result feature, though. For actual records, stick with the police department, the jail, or the court.