One of four suspects in the armed and masked bank robbery on Martha’s Vineyard last year has entered a plea agreement.
Forty-year-old Omar Johnson is now pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, armed bank robbery, and aiding and abetting.
With the plea agreement, prosecutors are recommending that Johnson face the low end of a prison sentence, according to court documents. The maximum amount of jail time he could serve is 30 years. U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins is also recommending a three-year supervised release along with fines.
The agreement was filed on Thursday, May 4.
Johnson was originally arrested days following the armed robbery and was arraigned in New Haven, Conn.
Prosecutors say that Johnson, Tevin Porter and Miquel Jones forced their way through the rear door of the Rockland Trust Bank in Tisbury. They were allegedly wearing dark-colored clothing and white masks when they robbed the Tisbury bank in November.
Rollins’ office says that each of the individuals was allegedly carrying what appeared to be semi automatic handguns.
Prosecutors say that once inside the bank, one of the individuals allegedly forced a bank teller to open the bank’s vault before taking approximately $39,100.
Jones, Porter, and Romane Clayton are scheduled to have an initial status conference on Monday, May 8, before Judge William Young in Boston.
No reason for a plea. This was brazen armed robbery and to recommend three years is dumb. If this guy gets only three years it is a travesty.
andy– the legal system in the U.S if full of examples of travesties.
But it’s usually the white people who get off easy.
I wonder what you think of this story;
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1168974403/texas-greg-abbott-pardon-daniel-perry
A trial will cost at least $100,000 and at least that much in appeals.
There is the chance that at least one of the twelve will find him innocent.
If you want smaller government and lower taxes put your political skills to work and convince him to cop a plea.
In cases of a brazen crime should perpetrators be taken out behind the jail for two in the hat?
I AGREE WITH ANDREW AND SO DOES TED CRUZ. “Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas went through the list of crimes that Rollins’ office has said it may not prosecute, saying that her practices would endanger people and embolden people to commit crimes.”
“You know it used to be that you had to pay off a prosecutor, have a corrupt prosecutor on the payroll to get out of jail,” Cruz said. “Now you’ve got someone just openly saying, ‘Drug dealers, come to Massachusetts because we don’t prosecute.’ “
And that tells you all you need to know.
Do you want Rollins to prosecute when he he thinks there is little chance for a conviction?
Do you enjoy watching politicians urinate away tax money?
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” Adam Smith
Yes, people have been wrong all throughout history.