Beaver County Criminal Records Office
Beaver County criminal court records for Common Pleas cases are maintained by the Clerk of Courts. The office is led by Judy R. Enslen and is located on the second floor of Building B at the Beaver County Courthouse, 810 Third Street, Beaver, PA 15009. The criminal records office can be reached at 724-770-4590, by fax at 724-728-8853, or by email at jenslen@beavercountypa.gov. It keeps the court file after charges are filed and handles motions, petitions, bail bonds, fines, costs, restitution, archiving, and expungement processing.
The Court of Common Pleas is Beaver County's primary trial court for adult criminal prosecutions. Beaver County is the 36th Judicial District. Magisterial District Courts handle many early criminal events, including preliminary arraignments, preliminary hearings, bail in many cases, summary matters, and some warrant-generating failures to appear. A felony case may start at the MDJ level and then move to Common Pleas, so the public docket may show both lower-court and Common Pleas activity.
The county's criminal court record should be read as a case history. It is not proof that every listed charge ended in a conviction. A record can show charges that were held for court, amended, dismissed, withdrawn, resolved by plea, or sentenced after trial.
The official District Attorney department page identifies the county prosecution office connected to these criminal cases.
That office context matters because the prosecutor's charging decisions become part of the Beaver County criminal court record once filed in court.
Search Beaver County Criminal Court Records
Start with Pennsylvania UJS Case Search, the statewide public docket system for criminal Common Pleas cases, Magisterial District Court cases, traffic matters, and appellate docket sheets. The UJS system is free to use. It can be searched by participant name, docket number, OTN, complaint number, incident number, SID, county, docket type, and several other paths. Selecting Beaver County narrows a statewide search to local records.
- Open UJS Case Search and choose the search path that fits the information already known, such as participant name, docket number, OTN, or complaint number.
- Limit the search to Beaver County when the portal offers a county filter. Use a broader search only when a person may have cases in more than one county.
- Open the criminal docket sheet and read the docket number, court level, filing date, charges, hearings, bail entries, motions, disposition, and sentence entries.
- Check whether an MDJ docket exists for the preliminary stage. Some records begin with an MJ docket before the Common Pleas case file opens.
- Contact the Clerk of Courts when a certified copy, older file, payment record, bail record, expungement entry, or document not visible on the public docket is needed.
For MDJ criminal records outside the online docket view, Beaver County also provides a Court Records Manager request route. Requests may be mailed to the Beaver County Courthouse, hand delivered in a sealed envelope to the Court Administrator's Office, emailed to rule509administrator@beavercountypa.gov, or faxed to 724-728-3729. A denial can be appealed within 15 business days to the President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County.
Use Beaver County arrest records and court charges when the question is focused on charge filing after arrest rather than the full court case file.
Beaver County Criminal Case Flow
A Beaver County criminal court record grows in stages. Many cases begin with an arrest, complaint, citation, or preliminary proceeding in a Magisterial District Court. If the case proceeds, Common Pleas entries track the filed charges, arraignment, pretrial motions, plea negotiations, hearings, trial dates, verdicts, disposition, sentencing, supervision terms, financial obligations, and post-sentence activity.
Case flow: Charges Filed › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
| Stage | What the Beaver County Criminal Record May Show |
|---|---|
| Charges filed | Complaint, OTN, charge list, offense date, docket number, and the court where the matter started. |
| Arraignment | Formal court appearance, counsel information, bail or release status, and scheduled next events. |
| Pretrial | Motions, continuances, hearings, discovery-related events, negotiations, and treatment-court screening where applicable. |
| Plea or trial | Plea entries, verdict entries, dismissed counts, amended charges, or trial results. |
| Disposition | Outcome of each charge, including guilty, not guilty, dismissed, withdrawn, or other case-specific result. |
| Sentencing | Incarceration, probation, restitution, fines, costs, supervision conditions, and later payment or compliance entries. |
Beaver County's District Attorney biography page identifies David J. Lozier as the elected District Attorney.
The elected prosecutor's office is part of the case path because filed charges, plea positions, and treatment-court screening can affect later docket entries.
What Beaver County Criminal Records Show
A Beaver County criminal court record is strongest when it is read field by field. The docket number identifies the case. The OTN links criminal justice processing data. The participant name identifies the defendant. The court level shows whether the entry is tied to Common Pleas, an MDJ case, or an appeal. Docket entries then show the time line of filings, hearings, orders, pleas, outcomes, and financial obligations.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Docket or case number | The court's case identifier. MDJ case numbers commonly begin with MJ in UJS. |
| OTN | The Offense Tracking Number used in Pennsylvania criminal processing. |
| Defendant and counsel | The accused person, attorney entries, and public defender involvement when listed. |
| Charges | Filed counts, statute references, grading, amendments, dismissals, or reductions when shown. |
| Hearings and motions | Arraignments, continuances, motions, orders, trial listings, and hearing results. |
| Bail | Release terms, bond events, bail actions, or commitment notes where public. |
| Disposition | The outcome of the case or each charge, such as guilty, not guilty, dismissed, withdrawn, or other result. |
| Sentence and costs | Probation, incarceration, restitution, fines, costs, payment plans, and Clerk of Courts collection entries. |
| Restricted data | Redacted identifiers, sealed records, expunged entries, juvenile matters, or information blocked by court policy. |
Note: A docket sheet is a public summary. The full file may require a Clerk of Courts request and may have limits.
Beaver County Criminal Charges vs Convictions
Charges and convictions are not the same. A charge is an accusation filed into the court system. A conviction is a final guilt finding by plea or verdict. Beaver County criminal court records can show both, and they may also show charges that did not result in conviction. Read each count separately because one case can include several charges with different outcomes.
| Point | Charge | Conviction |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | An alleged offense filed by law enforcement or the prosecutor. | A guilt finding through plea, verdict, or accepted court disposition. |
| Where it appears | Early docket entries, charging document, MDJ case, or Common Pleas case. | Disposition and sentencing entries on the criminal docket. |
| Can change | May be amended, reduced, dismissed, withdrawn, or held for court. | May later be affected by appeal, expungement, pardon, or limited access. |
| How to read it | Check status by count, not just the first charge listed. | Confirm sentence terms, costs, restitution, and supervision conditions. |
The Public Defender's Office represents eligible defendants in criminal cases, summary appeals, juvenile matters, mental health hearings, and indirect criminal contempt hearings on PFA violations.
Defense representation can appear in Beaver County criminal records through attorney entries, motions, hearings, plea activity, and disposition events.
Beaver County Criminal Bail and Costs
Beaver County criminal court records may include bail status, fines, costs, restitution, and payment-plan information. The Clerk of Courts collects criminal fines, costs, and restitution, distributes money to the county, Commonwealth, municipalities, and victims, and mails more than 5,000 collection statements each month to criminal defendants required to pay court debt.
Beaver County Adult Probation's Pre-Trial Services and Bond page explains that Pennsylvania uses a 10 percent deposit process in qualifying cases and notes that Pennsylvania does not use a commercial bondsman system.
Bail and payment entries should be checked against the docket and the Clerk of Courts office before money is sent or a balance is assumed current.
Beaver County Criminal Program Records
Some Beaver County criminal cases may include entries tied to diversion, treatment, supervision, or specialty programs. The Adult Probation glossary defines ARD, or Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, as a program in which first-time offenders may complete supervision conditions and then have charges expunged. It also defines Probation Without Verdict for first-time drug-offense cases, with expungement possible after successful compliance.
The research also identifies Beaver County Treatment Court as a 2026 program for eligible non-violent adults with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders. The team includes the judge, coordinator, probation officer, Assistant District Attorney, Assistant Public Defender, drug and alcohol case manager, and mental health professionals. Treatment Court is not the same as a dismissal at filing. A docket should be checked for the charge status, plea or revocation posture, and final disposition.
The Beaver County Adult Probation glossary defines ARD, Probation Without Verdict, bail terms, costs, restitution, probation, and other criminal record language.
Those definitions help explain why a Beaver County criminal record may show supervision or program entries before the public record later changes.
Beaver County Criminal Sealed vs Expunged
Restricted criminal records require careful reading. Pennsylvania law includes expungement and limited-access paths, but eligibility depends on the case result, offense, time passed, compliance, and other facts. The Clerk of Courts processes expungements in Beaver County, but the office is not legal counsel. A public search may fail because a record was sealed, limited, expunged, juvenile, or never part of an ordinary public court file.
| Point | Limited Access or Sealed | Expunged |
|---|---|---|
| Public view | Public access is blocked or reduced for eligible records. | Qualifying criminal history record information is removed or destroyed as law allows. |
| Law source | Limited access is addressed in Pennsylvania criminal history law. | Expungement is addressed by Pennsylvania's expungement statute. |
| Effect | The record may still exist for limited official use. | The public record should not be used like an ordinary criminal record. |
| Local route | Identify the exact case, then confirm access status with court records staff or counsel. | Check docket and Clerk of Courts processing records when public access permits. |
The Pennsylvania expungement statute, 18 Pa.C.S. 9122, is one source for criminal history expungement rules.
Expungement and limited-access entries should be matched to the specific Beaver County docket before a record is treated as publicly available.
Public Access to Beaver County Criminal Records
Public access for Beaver County criminal court records runs through statewide court policies, UJS docket access, and local custodian offices. The UJS public records policies address case records, statewide case data, financial records, and court record request procedures. The UJS public case information page also warns that docket data may lag behind recent entries made in court filing offices and should not replace a Pennsylvania State Police criminal-history background check.
Access limits: Juvenile files, adoption records, sealed cases, expunged matters, financial identifiers, minor identifiers, and protected addresses may be withheld or redacted.
For older, non-online, or unclear criminal files, the practical route is to identify the docket in UJS, contact the Clerk of Courts, and ask what public copy or certification process applies. For broader court records outside criminal custody, see Beaver County court records.