Man arrested on $100,000 warrant months after bail release in ghost gun case

Elroy Faulkner III, a St. Thomas resident who regained his freedom two months ago after a high-speed police pursuit, has been arrested again on a $100,000 Superior Court warrant.

On Wednesday, November 11, at around 7:30 a.m., officers from the Virgin Islands Police Department's Special Operations Bureau spotted Faulkner driving a vehicle with license plate T00-485 in Estate Wintberg. They executed an arrest warrant and search warrant, conducting a felony traffic stop and taking him into custody without incident, according to Detective M. Hilaire Sr. of the Domestic Violence and Special Victims Unit.

Faulkner now faces five criminal charges in Superior Court Case No. ST-2026-CR-00298: third-degree assault with a deadly weapon, possession of an unlicensed firearm during a crime of violence, false imprisonment and kidnapping, aggravated assault and battery inside a private family home, and brandishing or using a deadly weapon.

During a search of his vehicle, Special Operations Officer B. Francis discovered a blue latex glove containing a cardboard box with a white powdery substance and a white plastic bag filled with numerous small Ziploc bags. A Crime Scene Technician from the Forensics Bureau collected the suspected narcotics evidence.

This is Faulkner's second encounter with law enforcement in as many months involving weapons and suspected drugs. In September, he was arrested after running a red light on Veterans Drive in a red Toyota Camry and leading police on a high-speed chase through Savan and downtown Charlotte Amalie. When the vehicle became trapped on Nye Nordsidevej, a passenger fled into Simmonds Alley and left behind two latex gloves, a loaded untraceable ghost gun, and a loaded.40-caliber Glock 23 with an illegal 22-round extended magazine.

In the September case, bail was initially set at $27,000. Faulkner was released on an unsecured bond after posting a $3,005 cash deposit following a hearing before Magistrate Judge Simone M. VanHolten-Turnbull.

Faulkner was scheduled to appear Thursday at 9:00 a.m. before the same magistrate judge for his initial Advice of Rights hearing in St. Thomas Magistrate Division Courtroom MG-2.