Monroe County Wanted Notice Sources
No single countywide database collects every Monroe County warrant or every fugitive police are seeking. The clearest official listing comes from the Greece Police Department's GPD's Most Wanted page. That is a town department source. It is not a Sheriff's roster for all of Monroe County. Names appear and disappear there without a posted refresh schedule, so trust the live page rather than a screenshot or repost. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office has no verified standalone Most Wanted roster. Its Crime Stoppers program takes tips countywide, including about outstanding warrants, though it is not a searchable list. Rochester Police has a Warrants Unit, but no public RPD wanted roster was verified, and no MCSO "Warrant Wednesday" series could be confirmed. Reading a wanted list and confirming a warrant remain two separate errands.
Greece Wanted Listing Fields
What makes the GPD list practical is the detail. Each entry carries a name, date of birth, height, weight, and charge information. That is enough to know which notice you are looking at. It is not enough to identify someone on your own or to confront them. Acting on a tip is the department's job.
| Field | What the GPD listing communicates |
|---|---|
| Name | The person identified by the department's notice. |
| Date of birth | An additional identifier that should be read carefully, not used to make a public charge. |
| Height and weight | Basic descriptive details shown on the reviewed listings. |
| Charge information | The charge or warrant basis reported by GPD, not a conviction or final court outcome. |
The page states no publishing schedule. Listings can be added, altered, or pulled at any time as circumstances change. A missing name proves nothing about warrants. A listed charge says nothing about how a court later ruled.
Use Monroe Wanted Notices Safely
A wanted notice is a prompt, not a license to play detective. Read it, then pick up the phone. The Greece page offers a direct tip line, and the Sheriff's Crime Stoppers program runs a countywide channel you can use anywhere in Monroe. What you should not do is download notices, repost them, or start a scrapbook of your own. Details shift fast on active cases. A notice you saved last week may already be outdated, and spreading old information can cause real harm to the person it names.
- Open the current Greece Police home page and select the department's Most Wanted feature.
- Read the listed identifiers and charge language as agency-provided charges, not proof of an offense.
- If there is relevant information, use GPD's stated tip route or the countywide Crime Stoppers channel. Do not attempt to confirm the person's location personally.
- For a post-arrest custody question, use the county's Monroe booking-record and roster paths, which distinguish recent admission from current custody.
A jail report can confirm someone was in MCJ when that report was made. That is its limit. It cannot list every warrant in Monroe County or anywhere else. Note: The Greece listing is a live departmental notice, so its fields and availability can change without a published update schedule.
Monroe County Crime Stoppers Tips
MCSO Crime Stoppers is the county's official tip-and-reward network. Its stated scope covers outstanding warrants, stolen property, and drugs. Pass along what you know there. Do not expect it to confirm a warrant, a booking history, or a court outcome.
Monroe County Sheriff Crime Stoppers
Anonymous tip line: (585) 423-9300
No name is required, and a cash reward may follow only when a tip leads to an arrest and felony indictment.
Greece runs its own tip line at (585) 581-4016. There is also the email GPDTips@GreeceNY.gov. Know which department the information concerns? Use that department's channel. Rewards, where offered, depend on the program's own rules. A call alone guarantees nothing.
Monroe County Wanted Lists and Warrants
A wanted list is curated. It spotlights a handful of people an agency wants help locating. A warrant check works the other way: it asks whether a court or agency can confirm one person's specific matter. Monroe's public sources never merge those two functions. So a name absent from the Greece list, an MCSO report, or an RPD news item is never a safe answer.
| Question | Official Monroe path | What the path can establish |
|---|---|---|
| Is there a Rochester agency process for a possible warrant? | RPD Warrants Unit or arrest-information contact. | RPD's process for the matter, not every regional warrant. |
| Is someone in Monroe County Jail now? | MCJ roster or census, then Jail Bureau. | Current county custody at the report time, not every warrant. |
| Is there a public case or appearance? | e-Courts or WebCriminal, then the issuing clerk. | Public case and appearance information where available, not a complete warrant database. |
The distinction guards against a familiar mistake. An arrest record, a jail row, a charge, a case number, and a warrant each capture a different moment in a different system. None of them stand in for the others.
Check Monroe County Warrant Channels
Monroe County has no verified official warrant-search portal. For Rochester matters, the RPD contact directory lists the Warrants Unit at (585) 428-6571. The same directory and the RPD FAQ give arrest-information numbers: (585) 428-5990 outside Rochester, or 311 inside the city. These are agency phone contacts, not anonymous database searches.
- Identify the place and court most likely connected to the concern, without relying on a third-party name listing.
- For a Rochester matter, contact the RPD Warrants Unit or arrest-information line and follow the agency's instructions.
- For a current-custody question, review the MCJ roster or census and contact the Jail Bureau at (585) 753-4300.
- For a public court matter, search NY Courts e-Courts or WebCriminal where available, then ask the issuing court clerk about its record and appearance process.
- If the question concerns the person seeking information about themselves, contact an attorney or the issuing court to address it safely.
The Monroe County Jail reports run as plain text. Booking photos will not appear there. Treat them as one channel, not the final word on whether a warrant exists. Someone can be released, moved, or dropped from a fresh report. A name that vanished from the roster tells you little on its own. Note: e-Courts and WebCriminal may skip sealed cases, youthful-offender matters, or filings not yet entered, so a blank result never amounts to full clearance.
Monroe Court Paths After a Warrant
A court file answers a different question than a wanted notice. In Monroe County, felonies go through County Court. Misdemeanors and lesser offenses land with city, town, and village courts instead. The Monroe County Clerk's court information sorts felony files from local and federal proceedings. Match the court to the charge level and location. Do not assume one system holds every case.
For the final outcome, ask the court for a certificate of disposition. It lists the charges, any conviction, the date, and the sentence. It matters. Charges get reduced, dismissed, resolved by plea, or sealed along the way.
Monroe Wanted Notice Safety
If you spot someone named in a wanted notice, keep your distance. Do not follow, photograph, or confront them. Never attempt a detention yourself. Call 911 for emergencies. For anything less urgent, pass what you know to the official tip line. And if you think a warrant might name you, talk to a lawyer or the issuing court rather than working it out through a stranger, a post, or a public scene.
Important: A wanted notice is simply a request for help locating someone the sheriff is seeking, and the wording on it describes a charge, not a court outcome.