TISBURY, Mass. (WPRI) — A Massachusetts man has been convicted of robbing a Martha’s Vineyard bank at gunpoint nearly two years ago, according to acting United States Attorney Joshua Levy.

Miquel Antonio Jones, 33, of Edgartown, pleaded guilty Monday to committing an armed bank robbery and conspiracy, as well as aiding and abetting.

Investigators believe Jones and two other suspects, identified as Omar Johnson and Tevin Porter, stormed into the Rockland Trust bank in November 2022 armed with handguns and wearing masks resembling elderly men.

The suspects reportedly stole more than $39,000 from the bank before binding the employees with duct tape and zip ties and searching their belongings. The men then took off in one of the employees’ vehicles, which was later found abandoned in a nearby parking lot.

Romane Andre Clayton , who has also been charged in the robbery, is believed to have planted another getaway vehicle in that same parking lot so the men could escape unnoticed.

Prosecutors said Porter and Clayton left Martha’s Vineyard together on a ferry later that morning, bringing the getaway car with them.

Johnson and Jones stayed behind and drove to a farm to get rid of evidence connected to the robbery. The men buried the two firearms on the farm, where Jones worked as a landscaper, and burned the remainder of the evidence, including the masks and walkie-talkies.

Jones was taken into custody a few days after the robbery once detectives discovered the firearms and burned evidence at the farm where he worked. His sentencing is scheduled for December.

Johnson and Porter have also pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Clayton, meanwhile, is slated to plead guilty later this month.

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