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Jovanta Marquez Johnson, 27, Detroit, Mich., has been charged with tying up a man and a woman, robbing them at gunpoint and threatening to kill them at a northeast Minot apartment complex on Tuesday, according to Minot police.
He has been charged with two counts of Class B felony armed robbery, two counts of Class C felony terrorizing and two counts of Class C felony felonious restraint in district court in Minot.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Johnson, who was known to the victims as “Jay,” had been helping someone move into another apartment and had been staying at the apartment as a guest. The male victim had gone into a back room to make a phone call and the woman was watching television in a bedroom. Johnson then ran past the bedroom and confronted the male victim in the back room while holding a gun. Johnson pointed the gun at the other man. Johnson said he would have killed the other man if they were in Detro