4th Person Charged With Martha's Vineyard Bank Robbery

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MA — A fourth person was indicted in the Rockland Trust Bank robbery that prompted a manhunt throughout Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod in November 2022.

Miquel Antonio Jones, 39, of Edgartown, and Omar Odion Johnson, 32 of Canterbury, N.H., were already indicted on one count each of armed bank robbery and aiding and abetting. Romane Andre Clayton, 21, of Jamaica, was also previously indicted on one count of being an accessory after the fact to armed bank robbery.

A new superseding indictment has been filed in Boston charging Jones and Tevon Porter, 27, of Bridgeport, Conn., with one count each of conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, and one count of armed bank robbery and aiding and abetting.

Clayton was also charged in the new indictment with one count of bank robbery and aiding and abetting.

“Today, the FBI arrested the fourth member of a crew that is accused of committing a violent armed bank robbery on Martha’s Vineyard, which terrorized innocent bank tellers and bystanders just trying to go about their daily lives. It’s incredibly fortunate no one was hurt,” said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division.

According to the charging documents, on the morning of Nov. 17 Porter, Jones and Johnson forced their way through the rear door of the Rockland Trust Bank in Tisbury. They were allegedly armed with at least two semi-automatic handguns and wearing dark-colored clothing and white masks that resembled an elderly man with exaggerated facial features.

Once inside the bank, one of the individuals allegedly held a gun to the head of one of the bank employees, forced that employee to open the bank’s vault and took approximately $39,100, the documents said. It is alleged that the bank employees were bound with duct tape and plastic zip ties while their belongings were searched and the robbers demanded access to one of their vehicles.

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The charging documents further allege that Jones, Porter and Johnson then left the bank premises in an employee’s car and drove to the Manuel Correllus State Forest, where they abandoned the vehicle in a parking lot and fled in another car that had been left there for purposes of their escape.

It is also alleged that Porter and Clayton then left Martha’s Vineyard together on a ferry later that morning.

Meanwhile, Johnson and Jones allegedly drove to a local farm with the equipment that had been used during the bank robbery. It is alleged that, at the farm, two firearms used in the robbery were found buried in a hole in the ground and the remainder of the robbery equipment, including the plastic masks, were found burned.

After the evidence was disposed of, Jones returned home to his residence where he allegedly hid the approximately $39,100 that had been stolen from the bank, in his bedroom under a bureau. It is further alleged that Johnson left Martha’s Vineyard, reconvened with Porter and Clayton in Woods Hole, Mass. and then drove together to the area of Johnson’s home in New Hampshire.