BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Bridgeport man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Bridgeport to 89 months in prison for his role in a string of armed robberies of stores and an Amazon delivery truck in Bridgeport, Milford and Stratford, according to the U.S. attorney's office for Connecticut.

Elijah Raffington, 22, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill to serve five years of supervised release. Raffington is scheduled to finish a state sentence for related conduct in October 2027, and Underhill reduced the federal sentence to account for the time he will serve in state custody, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Raffington and others robbed Omega Deli in Bridgeport at gunpoint on Dec. 15, 2022; Milford Convenience & Tobacco in Milford on Dec. 21, 2022; an Amazon delivery truck in Bridgeport and Smoke Shop in Bridgeport, both on Dec. 23, 2022; and a Cumberland Farms in Stratford on Jan. 2, 2023.

In the store robberies, the men went in with guns, threatened employees, forced victims to the ground and took money and property, according to prosecutors. At Omega Deli, prosecutors said, Raffington held an employee on the ground at gunpoint while an accomplice, Mickyeem Profit, went through the registers and took money and cigarettes, and Raffington pointed his gun at a customer coming in as the two left. During the truck robbery, the driver was forced into the back of the truck at gunpoint and assaulted, prosecutors said.

Raffington has been held since his arrest on related state charges on Jan. 3, 2023. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 4, 2025, to one count of Hobbs Act robbery, a federal charge of interfering with commerce by robbery, and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Profit pleaded guilty and was sentenced March 12 to 102 months in prison, prosecutors said.

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