After robbing 10 businesses at gunpoint over a two-day span in late 2022, a 28-year-old Riverside County man was sentenced to 12 years in prison, federal officials announced Monday.
Corona resident George Arizon was arrested on Nov. 8, 2022, after robbing a 7-Eleven in Westminster.
During that incident, the 28-year-old threatened the clerk with a semi-automatic handgun and took $80 in cash from the register and two packs of cigarettes, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California.
Responding officers recovered the black semi-automatic handgun, which had a gold-colored barrel, that Arizon discarded nearby, along with a black sweatshirt, black hat and mask that he was seen wearing during the robbery.
“This was the tenth robbery Arizon committed during a two-day crime spree,” officials said.
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In Aug. 2023, Arizon pleaded guilty to to one count of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime.