Two arrests have been made following a bank robbery in the quiet tourist haven of Martha’s Vineyard earlier this month, prompting a manhunt for the masked and armed suspects.
Omar Johnson, 39, was arraigned Monday in New Haven Superior District Court on charges of armed robbery with a firearm and conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a firearm. WCVB-TV reported.
Johnson, who is from Canterbury, New Hampshire, was arrested Friday by multiple coordinating law enforcement agencies after a car stop in New Haven, Connecticut, around 8 p.m. Friday, according to a news release from the New Haven District Attorney’s Office. Cape and Islands District.
Johnson will be extradited to Massachusetts on or before January 3 and is being held on $250,000 bail.
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Massachusetts police released a photo of an individual they believe robbed a Martha’s Vineyard bank in mid-November.
(Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office)
Johnson was arrested about two weeks after he and two others allegedly they put on masks and stole a Rockland Trust bank in Vineyard Haven on November 17 and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, prompting a manhunt by multiple law enforcement agencies.
The three suspects were armed with handguns and bank employees were bound with duct tape during the robbery.
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Rockland Trust in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
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Johnson is the second person arrested in connection with the case after Miquel Anthonio Jones, 30, of Edgartown, Massachusetts, was arrested on November 21.
Jones was arraigned on one count of accessory to armed robbery and is being held on $300,000 bail, according to a news release.
Jones, a landscaper and former professional soccer player from Jamaica, is not suspected of being present at an actual bank robbery reported by NBC 10 Boston.
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Edgartown Lighthouse, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
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Police officials say Jones was in possession of a blue Hyundai stolen from the bank’s parking lot that was owned by a bank employee. Authorities say they found $100 bills in the car that matched the bills taken from the bank.
The investigation by the Tisbury Police Department, the FBI and the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office continues as law enforcement agencies continue to search for the two remaining suspects.
