Gastonia Police

5:40am radar of storms moving towards #Gastonia this morning. Please monitor weather conditions later this morning.

🚧 Traffic Alert – Sinkhole on Osceola St. 🚧 Officers with the Gastonia Police Department are currently on scene in the 600 block of Osceola Street due to a sinkhole in the roadway.

GPD Real Time Crime Center helps locate missing teen with special needs on Monday night. facebook.com/share/v/1X2SLo…

Dramatic new video of train hitting semi. Know about the blue sign with the number to call, it’s at every crossing!

Officers with Gastonia Police Department, GCPD, and Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Robert Lee Tallent. He was wanted by the YCSO for: ▪️ Rape with a Weapon
▪️ 2nd Degree Kidnapping
▪️ Domestic Violence with a Weapon
▪️ High and Aggravated Domestic Violence

Please avoid Airline and Brown for a sinkhole that caved in. Driver was not in truck when it sank. No injuries.

ARRESTED! Officers with the Gastonia Police and members of the US Marshals Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Waldemar Cabrera Veliz who is wanted out of VA for Malicious Wounding by Firearm and four counts of Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling.

It’s what we do! Gastonia Police and SWAT taking 1st Place at the Polar Plunge with $4,705 raised. Icy cold water for a good cause benefiting the Special Olympics of Gaston County. #Specialolympics #polarplunge

Do you recognize them? Small amounts of theft add up for consumers eventually. See our FB post: facebook.com/share/v/1F6Brv…

I-85 South near Bessemer City Rd very slow. Gastonia Police investigating a fatal crash where a car hit a parked semi that was pulled off the highway.

Off the Streets! Officers with the Gastonia Police Department, working alongside the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, arrested Brayan Robles in Gastonia. Robles was wanted out of Fort Worth, Texas for Statutory Rape of a Child.

Missing. 16 yr old Jamilt Veracruz was reported missing on Feb 9, 2026, from Gastonia, NC. She was given a ride by a friend to a McDonald’s near the outlets in Pineville, North Carolina, where she was last seen. Call GPD 704-866-6702.

School bus crash into the woods. facebook.com/share/p/1Dhb9z…

School bus crash at Jenkins Dairy and Jenkins Rd. Approx 30 elementary kids on bus; injuries possible. Please avoid area so police and EMS can work.

“Do Not Drive Warning” issued for 225,000 vehicles! Please check your vehicle’s VIN number through this link. loom.ly/Qjb2Jps This is related to airbags that may be defective.

Be smart after the Super Bowl tonight.

Thank you @FoxNews @foxweather for featuring K-9 Bo to explain the science of tracking that helped find a missing teen with #autism #police

Be safe out there.

Be courteous to other drivers.

Wow. If you get stuck on tracks call 911 to have emergency crews contact train line to hold traffic! #safety @weatherchannel miracle no one injured. #Gastonia