EDGARTOWN, Mass. (WLNE) — The United States Attorney’s Office said that an Edgartown man was sentenced for arranging the November 2022 armed robbery of a Martha’s Vineyard bank. 33-year-old Miquel Anthonio Jones was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. The office said the Jones led the conspiracy to rob the Rockland Trust bank branch in Vineyard Haven on Nov. 17, 2022. Jones identified the bank they would be robbing, obtained and provided all the necessary items for the robbery to his co-conspirators – including dark-colored clothing, plastic masks that resembled an elderly man with exaggerated facial features, zip ties and duct tape – and chose which bank to rob and when. The group of robbers threatened three employees at the bank, bound and tied them, and took $39,100 from the vault. #BREAKING: As a result of an #FBI Boston Violent Crimes Task Force investigation with @MassStatePolice, Miquel Antonio Jones, the ringleader of an armed robbery crew that robbed a Martha’s Vineyard bank at gunpoint has been sentenced to a decade in prison. https://t.co/izvr1icJG5 pic.twitter.com/joXtcUQ9Sp — FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) December 18, 2024 The robbers then stole one of the employee’s cars and fled the scene. The car was later found near the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest. Investigators said a dark blue Hyundai Elantra with a missing driver’s side rear tire hub cap left the parking lot where the stolen car was found, as well as burying the two firearms and burning the clothing and masks they wore. Jones conspired with co-defendants Omar Odion Johnson, of Canterbury, N.H., Romane Andre Clayton, of Jamaica, and Tevin Porter, of Bridgeport, Conn. to commit the robbery. Categories: Massachusetts, News