MILFORD — A Bridgeport man who took part in a gunpoint robbery of a Milford convenience store on the Post Road nearly four years ago has been sentenced to 89 months, a little more than seven years, in federal prison.
Elijah Raffington, 22, was sentenced Tuesday, Nov. 10, by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Connecticut. He will also serve five years of supervised release.
Prosecutors said Raffington and others robbed Milford Convenience & Tobacco, at 784 Boston Post Road, on Dec. 21, 2022. It was one of several gunpoint robberies in less than a month, according to the release, which also lists Omega Deli on Maplewood Avenue in Bridgeport on Dec. 15, 2022; an Amazon delivery truck and a smoke shop on Boston Avenue, both in Bridgeport, on Dec. 23, 2022; and a Cumberland Farms in Stratford on Jan. 2, 2023.
In the store robberies, Raffington and his accomplices went in with guns, threatened employees, forced victims to the ground and took money and property, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The Amazon driver was forced into the back of the truck at gunpoint and assaulted.
The case
Raffington has been detained since his arrest on related state charges on Jan. 3, 2023, according to the federal release. On Nov. 4, 2025, he pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of Hobbs Act robbery, which is interference with commerce by robbery, and one count of carrying, using and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
He 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.
A co-defendant, Mickyeem Profit, pleaded guilty and was sentenced March 12, 2026, to 102 months in prison.
The case was investigated by the FBI and the Bridgeport, Stratford and Milford police departments. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel J. Gentile prosecuted it.
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