New Hampshire Man Arrested In Connecticut, Accused Of Bank Robbery On Martha’s Vineyard

BARNSTABLE, MA — A man from New Hampshire was arrested in Connecticut on Friday night on bank robbery charges, accused of being one of three people involved in a heist on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Nov. 17.

Omar Johnson, 39, of Canterbury, NH, was arrested in New Haven, CT, and charged with masked armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a firearm.

Johnson was accused of being involved in the robbery of the Rockland Trust bank in Tisbury, MA. Miquel Anthonio Jones, 40, of Edgartown, MA, was arrested and arraigned about a week ago on one count of accessory after the fact to an armed robbery.

Limited information was released Saturday about the arrest.

Michael O’Keefe, the district attorney for the Cape & the Islands District in Massachusetts, said Johnson was arrested after a traffic stop of a car around 8 p.m. The Mass. State Police, the FBI, and the Tisbury MA and New Haven CT police departments were all involved in the arrest.

According to reports on Patch, the three robbers were dressed in black clothing and armed with handguns. They were accused of forcing their way into the bank and stealing about $28,000 in cash. Bank employees were bound during the incident. The three suspects fled the area in a car recovered shortly after the robbery.

Surveillance footage caught the suspects fleeing the area in another vehicle, Hyundai Elantra. That vehicle was stopped later by police, with Jones being accused of driving it. Police reported finding sequential numbered $100 bills from the bank in the car. Clothing also matched that of the suspects, police said.

Jones is due back in court in mid-December.

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