St. Thomas Felon Faces Machine Gun, Drug Charges After Two-Year Investigation

Marvin Stancliffe, arrested on November 25, allegedly fled a 2022 traffic stop where police found a loaded Premier PF-15 rifle, Glock handgun, cocaine, amphetamines, and ammunition. DNA evidence appears to linked him to the seized weapons.

ST. THOMAS — Officers recently arrested Marvin Stancliffe following the issuance of a warrant on November 25, 2024 on a slew of gun and drug charges stemming from a traffic stop more than two years earlier. On May 3, 2022, officers conducting traffic enforcement on Kronprindsens Gade stopped a vehicle that had no license plate on the front bumper, and only one working headlight. The driver and passenger – Stancliffe – were asked to exit the vehicle due to the smell of marijuana.

A search of the car revealed a gun on the floor of the front passenger side. When the firearm was discovered, Stancliffe reportedly wriggled out of the detaining officer's grasp and fled the scene, slipping through a space in the fence between the Department of Labor and Benji Car Wash. A deployed taser did not stop the fleeing man.