Gastonia PD and US Marshals arrest sex offender fugitive

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. – Gastonia Police with help from the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested 35-year-old Virgil Crump Thursday morning in Kings Mountain. Crump is charged with two felony counts of first-degree statutory sexual offense.

The department provided a photo of him during his arrest Thursday morning and his subsequent booking mugshot, as well as two previous mugshots from 2021 and 2019.

Crump was booked into the Gaston County Jail where he remains with no bond.